A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scoobie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scoobieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 scoobie in Corpus

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General Central

Elliott, Maggie Lallans 102 - Glesga Covid Prayer, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
ma furst jag but a aint got a scoobie on page 47

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
'I dinnae hae a scoobie,' said Mr Wonka. 'And it does on page 154

1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
JMcL14 @Prof_Murdoch Hivnae a scoobie unfortunately!(2019)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
t of England. Nae clue. Not a scoobie. Wonder if Dougie Ross will m(2020)

@Sinethugcat tweeted
certainly seems to hae not a scoobie fan it comes tae basic biolog (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
oor Joan has got mair than a scoobie, oor wummin has smeddum an ne on page 77

1 matches

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