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The word 'rooted'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rootedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71212
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rooted in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
He luks flummoxed, rooted, on page 156

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Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
Mr Dursley stood rooted tae the spot. He haed been hu
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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 75 - The Petrol Tanker, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Doric, prose
mi legs widna let me. Ah wis rooted tae the spot. An Elsie began
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Uri, Antonia North East filmmakker feart for the futur o Doric, (Doric Future 2019) Doric, blog
very much Doric spikkin fowk, rooted in Doric because o oor cultur
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General Northern

Carney, Don Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric, prose
borah's style o writin is nae rooted in the distant past bit captu on page 5

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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
feet were rooted tae the spot. Yon doberman su
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Dundee

Robertson, Gary A Wee Dundee Xmas Poem, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
in the festive season. It’s rooted in femly, friends an haein a
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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
jist might be happiness deep rooted in the news that ah’m aboot
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Ayrshire

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
Their family tree was firmly rooted in the deep, dark forest but
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General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
tched the flames grow higher, rooted tae the spot wi panic before on page 39

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South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Scotland still has such deep rooted divisions in society, don't b(2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
' an' oor diaspora - no onie rooted in Norlin Airlan bit an ident on page 24

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