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The word 'noor'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
noorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.5443
ORK - Orkney 417.3 42 1
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of noor in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Noor steers her skiff trou the voy on page 30
a. Thay glup her geyran face. Noor sets the skiff tae drift an l on page 34
mean-they must-" "Look," says Noor, no appenan her een. "There's on page 35
A alt-arkaeolojist visits wi Noor on page 43
w, that's the same, I mean-"' Noor taks his tagsie slaets, leuks on page 44
Also on pages 56, 57, 58, 75, 76, 77, 87, 88, 100, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 131, 133, 150, 158, 159, 160, 161
42 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"Noor cake an mince-pies," answer't on page 42

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
"Did ye noor" on page 56

1 matches

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