A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'roo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus26.2842
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 110.9 83 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 roo in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a domino stack surrounds the roo, an artful on page 61

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
intae Kanga's hoose, and when Roo had said, 'Hullo, Pooh,' and on page 30
umphie were aw staundin roond Roo, watchin him hae his Extract on page 32
's taen ma medicine!' chantit Roo, thinkin it wis jist the braw on page 33
rtit tae wunner hoo Kanga and Roo and Teeger were gettin alang, on page 50
'We'll awa and see Kanga and Roo and Teeger,' and Wee Grumphie on page 55
Also on pages 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 95, 96, 98, 99, 105, 106, 107, 112, 113, 114, 146, 147, 148, 149, 154
83 matches

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