A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'orral'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
orralOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.862
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
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 1.3 1 1
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 orral in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
seeventy, still the boozed-up orral he'd ay bin, 'cept noo he wis
'cept noo he wis a boozed-up orral wi a hoast, an ulcer, an a ni
er wis: a bully, a drooth, an orral – bit as fur Neil Duguid, t
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
hame ooto this ye stinky wee orral o a soo, The
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
idges. Focht ower? This, this orral o moss? Anely in the sense th
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
best bedroom. She had taen an orral o blue ribbon frae Mrs Jones' on page 6

1 matches

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