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The word 'roe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5165
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 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
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
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)
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 roe in Corpus

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Shetland

Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
brought up at da Nort Hams o Roe in a peerie twa bedroom but a
rest shop at da brig o Muckle Roe.
2 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Da Roe Lighthoose ?? https://t.co/8S (2019) twitter link
a amount o cars ats been troo Roe dis week is crazy ?? you wid (2020) twitter link
eep dir dog on a lead troo da Roe hill https://t.co/Opui5Tbokg (2021) twitter link
Love how da nort end a Roe is lik “whit snow” meanwhil (2021) twitter link

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
An Roe's gan tae sing a sang on page 127

1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
tae be a dandy shot tae get a roe, ye just hae tae bide yer tim
wa clumps o gorse tae far the roe made their way fae the neep p
ff the spot far he thocht the roe wes. Gently he pit his richt
kent nou for siccar it wes a Roe – an for an instant his myn
fine crust gied wey. Loon an roe cocked their lugs an lifted t
8 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
t things aboot faith, family, Roe v. Wade, an then went strauch
1 matches

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