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Use in varieties of Scots

skroo Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 0 3 79.5 29.1 0 0
Number of occurrences150 2 8 5 0 0
Number of authors6 1 2 3

Occurrences of skroo in Corpus

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Doric

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
O the skroo on page 115
The gell splet the skroo on page 118

2 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
A SKROO WI A TWIST on page 69
"Aal big aap thee skroo!" said afore he wis asked. on page 70
In no time at a he hid a fine skroo, on page 71

6 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Skroo on page 4

2 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
t dried enough ta get da last skroo biggit, an da hidmast tatties
1 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
yard we hurried, till a coarn skroo left ower fae last year. Ald
steed, an we could see at da skroo wis bön biggit ower a muckle
unter, lyin rostin anunder da skroo. I goes ootside, my hert a my
3 matches

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
caa hide-an-seek skuttamilla-skroo. We played dat an aa.”
1 matches

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