A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'doose'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dooseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 3
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 doose in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
aet a bat?" whin aa at wance, doose! doose! doon shö cam apon a on page 10
e birds shockit an fok hed ta doose dem apo da back. Hoosumever, on page 29
s gyaain ta gie da hedgehug a doose wi his head, wid he no twist on page 83

4 matches

Sandison, Iris Da Tree Peerie Grice, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, weans
rummlin i da lum an doon wi a doose cam da Muckle Weekit Wolf! Wh
1 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
d oot, da boat guid doon we a doose! Dat med Mansie look up, an o
1 matches

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