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The word 'plooms'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ploomsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51511
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
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 plooms in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
this wis the moment fur Soor Plooms. ‘As I say, even if You-Ken
e, who wis unstickan twa Soor Plooms, seemed no tae notice. ‘It
2 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
they cam frae Daia ~ bien in plooms frae Siura Mica o peerie ruif on page 3

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
de seekin' tae sook some soor plooms. #BetterTheDeilYeKen(2017)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
Plooms and cherries, on page 16

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Fat plooms an rosie rasps, gem-ticht on page 91

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
the smell an the taste o soor plooms, cinnamon baws, toffee doddle
1 matches

Glasgow

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
g jawrs ae humbugs an’ soor plooms, pokes ae sherbet wi liquoris
onter, lookin’ fur the soor plooms. Jonny wiz a’ready askin’
2 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
-up lik she'd bin sookin soor plooms. on page 22

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Fat plooms an rosie rasps, gem-ticht on page 91

1 matches

Rhind, Neil Eemis Stane 2 - The Ploom, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, poetry
There arenae plooms spied on yon tree. on page 5

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Fat plooms an rosie rasps, gem-ticht on page 52

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Soor Ploom Fairy, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
wi jujubes an soor plooms;
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
hae a languid, desultory and plooms in the mou stushie-ish strama(2020)

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