Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'roast'

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Use in varieties of Scots

roast	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	11.9	38	20
ORK - Orkney	49.7	5	1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	2
MNB - Mid Northern B	131	1	1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	11.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	17.7	4	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire	39.3	3	1
LAL - General Central	17.4	13	3
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
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	28.1	2	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of roast in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
A roast chicken dinner on Sunday - I on page 31
As he dished up crisp roast tatties and a scrumptious-luk on page 57

5 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, an hot butter on page 13

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hukken beens frae the Sabbath roast . The skiffie wis skirpin satt
1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
Ee bring hame a lambikie ti roast for e Sabbath denner an by Do
1 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
? Ye honestly think ah give a roast tattie flinging feck whit ye (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
e the Admiralty than eyn up a roast deuk here. Tell Geddes an Sim on page 41

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
hae bakit tatties instead o' roast on page 80
I mak a guid roast on page 193

2 matches

@Franwella tweeted
hinkn I shud bring bak sunday roast(2011)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Havester Inn's places bit the roast dinner wiz nae a patch on Jes(2016)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
usly, I thought everyone done roast tatties in the chip pan, till(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
weekend. Ma ma made this nut roast thing wi mushroom gravy fur m on page 92

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
che lorraine, French cheeses, roast beef, aw sorts o goodies on page 71

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ry-tart, custart, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, an hoat butte on page 13

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
-tairt, custart, pine-aipple, roast bubbly-jock, toffee an het bu on page 13

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
us slaves o Satan... may they roast for all eternity in the flame on page 52
gied her a wee aff-cut o the roast mutton they'd had upstairs on on page 67

2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
happens tae be tomatae soup, roast beef, and blueberry pie, but on page 107
cond coorse is comin up! It's roast beef! It's braw and juicy! Ya on page 109
but that doesnae mean you can roast her like a herrin. I'm tellin on page 130

4 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
a scabby horse. Whautr's the roast beef?" on page 45
"Ye didnae tell us ye wantit roast beef," Klaus said. on page 46
lootert we'll no care if it's roast beef or whit." on page 49
ns - and lairnin how tae mak roast beef," she pit in quickly, mi on page 78
flakie jist cause he'd wantit roast beef insteid o puttanesca sau on page 98

8 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
arrots and three pathetic wee roast totties. on page 84

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
rry-tart, custurt, pineapple, roast turkey, tablet, an hot butter on page 13

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
rry-tart, custart, pme-epple, roast turkey, toffee, an het butter on page 13

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Pig ain a roarin spit roast. on page 57

1 matches

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
Cannae find the roast tatties and gravy man at the (2019)