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The word 'rovers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roversOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.5244
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 29.4 22 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 rovers in Corpus

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
anager min! Better hope Raith Rovers or Clydebank or any other tea(2018)

General Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ll mebbe see ane or twa o the Rovers players gaein in an oot for t on page 65

10 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
Mon the Rovers
epstake and it wis like, aye, Rovers, wan-nil, nae bother.
That wis some Rovers team though. Scott Thomson in
er and pupil anymore. We were Rovers. Two Rovers.
. Two Rovers.
12 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Three Land Rovers arrived, nae need o' disguise on page 30

1 matches

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