A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'rouk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roukOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 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 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 rouk in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
es, fer shifts i'the drifts o rouk; Olaf the sightsman's at the on page 23
raeth "thir seean ships i'the rouk wi drives at isno been invent on page 98
Thir isno anither wird. I'the rouk thir twatree thoosan poynts o on page 120
ae the muckle dance, sail the rouk in sairch o Light. Byvind cho on page 151

4 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
e Scotch Elms, fell awa tae a rouk o snawdraps, led tae…
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Muithie rouk o breith, on page 55

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
throu the rouk o time an memory, caas ti myn
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
’t oot tae bei ae ‘wusp o rouk’ amang the bent, in ae sma
ei naithin mair nor ae wusp o rouk, amang the bent.
2 matches

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