A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'rooney'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rooneyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
ORK - Orkney
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rooney in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Rooney free kick wis perfection(2020)

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ext day, and she hud an Annie Rooney. Daddy tellt me tae pay no mi on page 17
'Burns would huv an Annie Rooney,' ah write, 'If he saw the st on page 52

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
wrangly wrate 'having a nanny rooney' whan, in actual fact, the ri on page 49

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ars. She'll be huvin an Annie Rooney. She's soon hobblin doon the on page 2
'Ah'm gaun'ae huv an Annie Rooney if ye dinnae find it quickly! on page 9

2 matches

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