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The word 'dooble'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doobleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83618
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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) 36.3 2 2

Occurrences of dooble in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ingoes, an da soldiers hed ta dooble demsels up an staand apo der on page 83

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
oond (quantity) is shaan wi a dooble-up grapheme. Fir example, a l on page 32

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
Da best example o dis is da dooble AA spellin. I write dis in wi
€™ soond. Bit I duina write a dooble AA in wirds laek haff an watt
˜aw’ soond. Dis means at da dooble AA spellin coud be a standard
is wirds is written doon wi a dooble AA. Shui seems ta hae nae bud
, an write wirds laek baak wi dooble AA whidder we say dem ‘aaâ€
5 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
he kent aa aboot his cousin's dooble life.
her. Smootie wis back tae her dooble life, an lovin hit!
n sure naebody kent aboot her dooble life. An whit a story shö wi
3 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
“Hiv ye onie dooble heuks for the wurms?” A ask
1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
A wis lean sklent on the dooble-bed whin the twa ambulance fo
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
noo wi characters that lives dooble lives, the likes o The Hulk,
le inspiration comin frae the dooble life led bi Deacon Brodie, th
oan the dooble-decker.
Dooble-deckers are twice
oan the dooble-decker bus.
5 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Efter a month o this dooble life, Rongye cam back tae Del
she side-stepped, clappit at dooble speed agin his baseline, an s
2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
e chaip saits, or we cuid pey dooble the price an gae tae the VIP on page 23

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - The Sycamore at Calton, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
Atop rid dooble-decker Western buses,
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
'Because drucken men see dooble. Sae the geographer micht jot on page 55

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
buik in his airt for makkin a dooble o ony testament that fowk wan on page 40
n ower an a body shuid find a dooble o Monumental Inscriptions for on page 51

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Dooble modals on page 2
Dooble modals on page 31
he ordnar body that wad use a dooble modal, gin ye pyntit this oot on page 33
e story comes til a heid wi a dooble murder an self-killing in 188 on page 59

5 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
dooble task.
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
y answert, ‘We’ll gie him dooble as muckle as whit he brings.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
havie aff the block grant wad dooble airts spendin an byde nae mai on page 5

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
hoose dooble whiskies, ongaun sangs o whai on page 77

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
We're aften dooble-glazed, conformin tae Standar on page 129

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
an ïll spïrit. She wus bent dooble an cudnae stan up strecht ava on page 93

1 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
* prent in dooble letters keepin in tha boxes;
1 matches

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