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Use in varieties of Scots

fools Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 2 1.5 0 34.9 0 8.9
Number of occurrences134 1 0 6 0 2
Number of authors9 4 1 2 2

Occurrences of fools in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
ot-foxed an made ti feel like fools on page 43

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
The Ship o Fools new built wi yon serpent Rere on page 35

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
ils, Toffy noses, boolmoothed fools. on page 4

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
north - n its no even april fools day lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

@Franwella tweeted
o that's great minds, canna b fools ;-)(2011) search twitter

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ll pit fish ati da watter, an fools i da lift.' An der wis aa kin on page 4
t paece. Abön wis da noise o fools singin dir haerts oot. Hit wi on page 5
an idder fools forbye bide aboot dy hoose on page 37
Tink o da fools; dey dunna wirk i da rigs or on page 95

5 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
d' in StE: De'r a aafil lok o fools blaan in wi da aesterly, A'm on page 106

1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
No spen it lake Tam-fools. on page 41

1 matches

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
fu o greed an wickitness. Ye fools, hae ye no tha sense tae know on page 90

1 matches

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