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Use in varieties of Scots

sooks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 3.5 6 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences137 4 0 0 0 2
Number of authors12 6 4 2

Occurrences of sooks in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, John Lallans 82 - Biggin the Great Nor Road, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
shag intae the bowl, sooks air intae his lungs. on page 66

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n eat them properly, she jist sooks them an then spits them oot. on page 147

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
A bairn sooks his thoomb, sleeps doucely, on page 19

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
y'll connach ma braith. Ingin sooks!'
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
reasonably, replies as McDade sooks the milky hash smoke intae hi
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
in Scoland. Jist s’lang she sooks in wi the piggin Inglish.”
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
The machine that sooks an syne blaws But wi words li on page 15

1 matches

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
tae that whilk sooks nae err efter we're gane on page 3

1 matches

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
sooks you in, sook-by-sook, on page 23

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Bit noo he sooks his thoom an wonders on page 190

1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
This sooks alang tha groun. on page 45

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
As tha clabber sooks at his shoon he sees it aa - on page 53

1 matches

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