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The word 'scrooge'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scroogeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 scrooge in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Ah'm no caad 'Scrooge' fur nutheen - they ken me s on page 81

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
they come, yon chiel. An aul' Scrooge, Peggy Watson cae'd him. Aye, on page 35

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
SCROOGE on page 39
de a face at me. S is fur the Scrooge, she said, an then she pit th on page 40
w now, said ma da, Don't be a Scrooge. Ah tolt him he looks ridicul on page 169

4 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ents and families. Gies peace Scrooge.(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
storm @ArgyllSeaGlass Aye bit Scrooge wis capable a learnin fae heÂ(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
current Tory Party. They mak Scrooge look like the Sally Army.(2020)