A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ootower'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ootowerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.8228
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 ootower in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
d passes, an whan hid's fired ootower the starns, the starns is tir on page 163

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
y more lukkan tae the future. Ootower aa that, thir wis plenty o wr
e thir teu. Ye want tae write ootower yir language, bit yir aye wri
maginaetion as weys o brakkan ootower the prescribed limits o yir l
3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
A'm interestid i politics ootower the naetion-staet, an that ma
at maks me interestid i leids ootower standardiesaetion. We maan ui
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the best room, the een luikin ootower the kailyaird, wi the bruce's
Hyne ootower the sea.
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
shin bricht in the cauld sun. Ootower the loodspikkers cam a fishin
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
the 275 Valenbisi staunds aa ootower the city (free for the first on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
the passenger at laest keekin ootower at the Muckle Brig, an on a m on page 125

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
the passenger at laest keekin ootower at the Muckle Brig, an on a m
an castin three vast shaidaes ootower the watter.
2 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 82 - As The White Swan Passes, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
ootower the still watters on page 14

1 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 58 - twa poems bi George Hardie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Hamilton, poetry
ootower the pale wash on page 41

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ilk clachan cud hird its yaks ootower a wide area. They had a puckl
ilk clachan cud hird its yaks ootower a wide area. They had a puckl
laith, an a reid stain spreid ootower it.
3 matches

General Central

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 73 - Stars, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
While ootower, Christmas hes got ayont the on page 56

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
le Ages. It was suin acceptit ootower Englan in the prentin trade, on page 56

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
i the twa kintras was rinnin ootower the twa. Up tae 95 per cent o
1 matches

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