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The word 'soot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sootOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of soot in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ers doon - an fae a pillar o soot on page 26

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ly Kentish Aald English in da soot-aest o England. on page 14

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Win his veered intae the Soot Wast,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
lish "foot", "good", "wood", "soot" isna exackly the same as the
vowel 15 in fit 'foot', sit 'soot', nit 'nut', pit 'put', wid '
l wi a "ui": fit (foot), sit (soot), nit (nut), pit (put), wid (
3 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ears worth ay the thick black soot ay heavy industry, it stauns
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
it. The bricks were smitit wi soot and grime. There wis anely th on page 20

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
or cry "Thir's soot fa'n doon the lum, on page 25

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
soot on every waa rain ever fell b on page 107

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
llopy guisin claes. A wee bit soot fae the lum tae mak a wee mou
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ae steer the jeely, a clump o soot fell doun the lum an intae th
1 matches

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