A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ool'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
oolOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 3
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 ool in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
. Dis thoo no hae a cat, or a Ool?????? (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
Tae dis Athene, da ool-eed goddess, answered:
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
but use a fake identity - n ool baith hae a pairty lol (2020) twitter link
@MusselburghAth @amy_lou1934 ool need tae get streetchered aff (2021) twitter link
s gaun tits up the noo - but ool get there - bring oan the ne (2020) twitter link

South East (Borders)

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
tae settle here and a'm share ool sei the benefits es time gaun
1 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@AidanReilly6 ool si whae hez got the problem o(2012)
tted eev got a problem bulla. Ool aw help e threw it pal #pissh(2012)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
on46 sure will be on bob cat. Ool keep the bench warm. All b it(2012)

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