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Use in varieties of Scots

aboots Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 4.1 1.5 29.8 11.6 20.7 8.9
Number of occurrences188 1 3 2 2 2
Number of authors16 7 1 2 2 2 2

Occurrences of aboots in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
e's a muckle mustartmine here-aboots. An the moral o that is-'"The on page 44

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Sulhunt, Miriam Lallans 90 - Rapunzel, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
an naur aboots on page 33

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Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
tae get onywhaur near aboots the tap on page 37

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
m the Christian Cairrier here-aboots - he wis a man o courage, an on page 41

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
toves in the lift abuin. Here aboots a body can follae the fitstap on page 65

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Sangster, Maureen Lallans 73 - Stars, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
hree weemen at the table naur aboots on page 56

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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
re o the group includin whaur aboots hit is steidit in the public
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Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Where aboots ur ye fae anywaiy?’ he sais
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Doric

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
piece up until 1984 or there aboots.(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Come in-aboots yit though, on page 3

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@peediepuss tweeted
Oh I don't ken that een. Whar aboots is hid? Spent many happy days(2020) search twitter
speeder though. Mibbe no here aboots. Thanks for yin list, a'll ha(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
aboots. on page 99

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@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
reer Dirs plenty tae see here aboots. Dus no needin tae go far awa (2018) twitter link

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
lass frae Lanarkshire or thar aboots, an Yid Nichol o The Haugh te
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@StuartPoet tweeted
but really, how are you?) Far aboots? (whereabout(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
roon. There was naebody near aboots. Ah was houlin Jenny’s han
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@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
aiph fones Polis, askin where aboots wuz tha white powdir stuff??? (2021) twitter link

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