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The word 'ruch'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ruchOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6186
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 144.2 11 1
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) 62.8 2 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 102.5 2 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ruch in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
chin, pibroch, pleuch, richt, ruch, screigh, shauchle, sicht, sk
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
-by sang, an giein it a nesty ruch shougle at the en o ilka line on page 44

4 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e miss duntn his heid aff the ruch timmers. There wis nae windae on page 22
hey baith stauchert alang the ruch stan¢ causey forenent the st on page 24
sax furlongs o muir gress an ruch moss-hag tae Whaur the battle on page 53
wore a linen sark an a pair o ruch linen breeks ower woollen sto on page 68
m aa mair toom, Edam biggit a ruch laft flair up in the ruif tre on page 73
Also on pages 76, 79
7 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
wer it, but hir voice soundet ruch an funny, an the wurds wudnae on page 19
shae nursed it, an gaein it a ruch shake at the en o ivery line: on page 60

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
boys, he wus lukkin ruch. on page 6

1 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
naether sicht nor sign o tha ruch nicht. Tha grun wus dry as ba
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Life's ruch hard pad on page 11
Ruch an roakie Ballyhaskin on page 25

2 matches

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