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The word 'ropp'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roppOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 3
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
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 ropp in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
smilan but feelan a ropp hank aff as sheu faas backlee on page 64

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Hae, Bill! Tak a hadd o dis ropp - Will da rof hadd? - Watch on page 38

1 matches

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
as fenders an we belld him a ropp. He tied hit tae a bycht i da
1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
een pikk. As weel as da banks ropp dat every man kept hingin rea
). Dis wis riggit wi a lent o ropp med up wi a noose hingin fae
sy tae keep a haad o da banks ropp wi ee haund, da noose ropp in
wi ee haund, da noose ropp in da idder, and wirk da girn

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