A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

poofs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 0 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 0 1 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of poofs in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n us an sayin Stramash wur aw poofs. Him an Chris got intae an ar on page 157
, NAW, shoutet Chris, GET YIR POOFS INVOLVED. Missus Murray wis w on page 159
Wur jist three wee poofs wi micra phones on page 169

3 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ery. That wis the preserve ay poofs an burds.
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
"'They're cheust fur poofs and pansies", Daavit snapped on page 47

1 matches

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