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Use in varieties of Scots

roaring Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences53 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of roaring in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
When an awfie roaring filled the air on page 33

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
wis doonstairs, shouting and roaring at us for ramshin Cheerios at on page 12

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
In the still I heard a man: roaring faur-aff.
1 matches

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
IanCrocker1 You will hear me, roaring fae the Broadhilll.(2020) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A roaring fire wi sleeping dug on page 14

1 matches

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