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The word 'soacks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
soacksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.794
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 137.6 3 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 soacks in Corpus

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North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
t tae pick up the reek o auld soacks, extremely auld soacks, soack on page 22

3 matches

(South) East Central

Gilmour, Rosie Shoapaholic, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
Fir leggins, toaps an soacks
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
, an a big stupit rucksack ay soacks an pants oot in'ae the rain. on page 3

3 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
oot amang cannons, grapeshot, soacks an semmits is thai louped tha on page 63

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Jordan's New Jaiket, (Education Scotland 2014) Central, weans
even pit on twa pair o thick soacks!
1 matches

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