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The word 'shoo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.176
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 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shoo in Corpus

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Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
Blashy shoo'ers, an thundry plumps.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
cil groanen, theiy took hee's shoo an sock aff, an lyftet up hee on page 6

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
eir at yer mither if she’ll shoo up a bonnie blue
1 matches

Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
telt tae hud wir tongues an' shoo
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@ionafyfe Shoo shoo doo(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
on the ither end o the shuggy-shoo fae the Irish language. There
1 matches

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