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The word 'pools'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poolsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62014
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 2
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 42 4 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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) 65.7 2 2
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pools in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
bright green weed in tidal pools. on page 49

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
hidan in the pools? Does yur rocks pivver in the on page 21

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
a tunnel is a stretch a moory pools, shallow pools thankfully, fu on page 93
is noo. I glanced at da hill pools as I passed, an hopit fervent on page 94

4 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
think o leavin't. Onless wir pools cam up. on page 72

3 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Northwords Now 45 - The Win, (Northwords Now 2024) Doric - Peterhead, prose
e scattert lampposts wi their pools o fuzzy licht the wye up wis
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
onythin like a big win on the pools. Still, ye never ken! 'Here, on page 72

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And bringin pools o dust tae bed and taverns ta on page 37

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
watter-craw wis dookin in wee pools o the burn, lookin for her de on page 2

1 matches

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
His een were deep, daurk pools, on page 11

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
l country! And aw the sweemin pools as weel! Is that no braw? And on page 75
SWEEMIN POOLS FILLED WI GINGER. on page 137

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
but droonin pools o doom, on page 36

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
reid lurks or warmer, shilpit pools whaur lauchter, leisure, labo on page 51

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Or win tha fitba pools, on page 41

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
douked ma feet in pirlin rock pools tae sey the watter an the sau
1 matches

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