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Use in varieties of Scots

ootskirts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 3 0 9.9 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences86 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of ootskirts in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
wee workin class toon oan the ootskirts ae Edinburgh. Ah've heard a l on page 101

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
'We're on the ootskirts o Fantooshopolis noo,' said C on page 16

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
um, middle ae naewur, on the ootskirts ae a city thit wis et war jis
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
t hiv been scoukin aroond the ootskirts o the leid this mony a lang y
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
oop purposefully taewards the ootskirts ay the village. A polis motor
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
were sleepin in a barn on the ootskirts o toon an they wad let him jy
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
lived in a widden hut on the ootskirts o the toon, No bigger than a on page 68

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
cumin up tae Jericho, on tha ootskirts, a blin man wus sïttin beggi on page 101

1 matches

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