A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'floo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.796
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 1
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 floo in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I smirked and read the floo'ry verse then read hid ower a on page 9

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
tik a chunse." Well, shi jist floo entae a blin raige, an caad m on page 41
r nicht, eit seem't tae loase floo'ed aw thi tyme, an braik floo on page 67

3 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
think Decora sell artificial floo'rs(2011)

(South) East Central

Gilmour, Rosie The Thistle, (Scots Hoose 2013) Central, weans
The floo'er o Scotland
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 67 - Efter the Bonspiel, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
The floo'ers o'eedjit Spring were slac on page 63

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Sweet life, a fading floo'er on page 16
Amongst the floo'ers, the weeds and nettles on page 34

2 matches

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