Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'proota'

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Use in varieties of Scots

proota	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	4
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
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)	265	3	2
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	56.2	4	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of proota in Corpus

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Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Warwick, Matthew Fergie an Freens oan tha fairm, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2011) Ulster - Rural Mid-Antrim, weans
It maun be proota getherin saison. "Thon's a br on page 8

1 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
a modern bisness, noo) an the proota store (awa, noo): the wee sha
e furst sing’l Wudbins; the proota store, whar the cairted bings
2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
ha hoose, as he wrocht in tha proota fiel, John heerd a cry oan th
1 matches

General Ulster

Stewart, Kenny The Proota Field, (Facebook 2021) Ulster, poetry
The Proota Field
But the tae in a proota field was a treat that would
re such happy days oot in the proota field
t you spent when you were out proota hokin"
4 matches