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The word 'spooky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
spookyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 spooky in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
thing thoo can deu tae stop a spooky stot. on page 87

1 matches

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
creepy big hoose, mysterious spooky and strange, on page 29

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Cormack, Liam Hallaeen, (The Gaudie 2019) Doric - Banff, poetry
The spooky mood is risin.
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
Wallace. Just dinae want yir spooky lips hoodoo on oor team tae c(2020)

General Central

Keaveney, Marcus Lallans 102 - Bein a Wid Tink, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
nsielik fae its airms, leamin spooky in the forenicht gloamin. A c on page 71

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
hynge their name tae a sortae spooky pun fir Halloween.(2019)

@LairnScots tweeted
Listen tae audio recordins o spooky stories, watch a video aboot (2018) twitter link

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