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The word 'ootline'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ootlineOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.31411
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 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 ootline in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the ootline an window aglow. on page 30

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Donald lookit up te see the ootline o Gertie towerin abeen on page 41
"Promise?" Ah traced the ootline o's lips wi a fingir. on page 44

2 matches

General Northern

Stewart, Del Tales Fae The Doric Side - Seaforth Road, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
ah watch the bleary ootline o him, on page 70

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
his left, he cood mak oot the ootline o the Black
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
nd blue shorts. He leaves the ootline o the face and limbs blank o
ourin pencil and fills in the ootline o her face, blendin intae the
As ye draa the ootline o yer grandma’s stoot body,
3 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
A wheetie-whattie ootline on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ie an owerview o the subject, ootline the heids o the airticle an h on page 10

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
and all ah could see wis the ootline o mountains against a pollute on page 92

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
s particules and wittins o an ootline history o sang gaitherin in S on page 69

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ae tried tae follae the braid ootline o the recommendations i this on page 56

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
an see whaur the purple-green ootline o Scotland haps up the sky. F
1 matches

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