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The word 'cooper'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cooperOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32111
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 85 8 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of cooper in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
horseman frae Northies, Attie Cooper, and Dod Mathieson, Steenhill
ner did he dae it, than Attie Cooper frae Northies liftit a cairt
2 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
but fit aboot yir McTominay, Cooper and Robertson? Far higher pro (2020) twitter link
t dis it say aboot McTominay, Cooper and Robertson? Equally honkin (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ma name is finally cawed, "Mr Cooper" a voice says. Ma fists insti on page 125

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
k Super Ally McCoist, an Davy Cooper, an aboot Mo Johnson the firs on page 66

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
eal. The Lord President, Lord Cooper o Culross, heard yon appeal a on page 43

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
no a patch on Lee Cooper a sharp shooter on page 65

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
yung lads made their way tae Cooper's Lodgin House on the Shore-h on page 26
burgh, an brocht him back tae Cooper's house. He recognised the ba on page 27

5 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
rth East' an 'There Wis a Wee Cooper that Lived in Fife' were sang on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
ason. Last year Margaret, the cooper's lass, was got with child wh on page 3

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
expression...there wis a wee cooper that lived in Fife, nickety n(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
i Arthur Waley (1986), Arthur Cooper (1973) an L Cranmer-Byng (194 on page 34

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
tarving, the lot o’ us. Mrs Cooper fae the Sally Army would gie
1 matches

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