A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

foo's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 0 19.6 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences160 13 0 1 2 0
Number of authors9 7 1 1

Occurrences of foo's in Corpus

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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
"Foo's tricks, Callum. Gey big news, on page 93

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Rosie, offerin er a caramel. "Foo's the diet gaun?" on page 13
Foo's sic an sic? Ay! Nivver? Na!" on page 32
or an Stevie cam stridin in. "Foo's the last o the reed het luver on page 53

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ese cairry-oot on the table. "Foo's it goin?" on page 72

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Chantel, Foo's yersel. on page 107
Nuthin tae say bit fit a day foo's yer dug been on page 137

2 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
@cdancer108 aye Quine foo's yer doo's? Aye peckin'? #dori(2015) search twitter
nd o' mannie, I wiz winderin' foo's thon aipples tasting e' day? (2015) search twitter

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ributor of the Doric phrase “foo's yer erse fur pleuks?” fit me(2015) search twitter

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
chuncer an thick as mince.. (Foo's yer Doric? Translation?) (2020) twitter link

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
rdoch Allan o Turra's finest. Foo's aht for a couple o tarts? htt(2020) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
hit like are ye? or Yer fine? Foo's it gaan? (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"Foo's du gettin on?" said da Cat, a on page 85

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
gan (where l are you going)? Foo's yer doos? (how are your racin(2020) search twitter
@Lenniesaurus Foo's yer doos? ??? (2020) twitter link