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The word 'roondaboot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roondabootOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4119
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of roondaboot in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
y'ill no need tae go roond a roondaboot on page 137

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
fell ageen, an ran on. An aa roondaboot me, as I wan ta da banks broo
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Live fae the Kingswells roondaboot https://t.co/0lzFWfm6fG(2020)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
chin at the swings, Forby the roondaboot; on page 24

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
brian the snail in the magic roondaboot is faster and ur spelling is (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
h see the van burlin roon the roondaboot, ‘HOPE YIES GET PUMPED!’
1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
the centre o a muckle cosmic roondaboot whaur wormholes met an skited on page 2

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
aboot yer hame toun an areas roondaboot, if something daesna soond ri on page 48

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
o the haill map wis a muckle roondaboot, an a sign sayin ‘Kat’s g
is at the centre o a wormhole roondaboot,’ feenisht Doug. ‘Hunners
2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ldin that was took doon for a roondaboot in the 60s. No sure wha it wa (2014) twitter link