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The word 'stroll'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
strollOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71916
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 stroll in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ted onwards, We'd still tak a stroll doon the lane And, there, bi on page 66

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Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
menfokk tak a final stroll aroond. on page 57

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
We went for a Sunday stroll to blow away da cobwebs and s(2018)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
funcy takin an oor or sae tae stroll the sands but ye micht want t on page 10

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
neen or tak masel fer a brisk stroll up yon beach tae Asda. Althou(2018)
ng up a bit, especially fan I stroll in fae the bar & hoose is lik(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ah stroll through The Kirkgate. A wee s on page 68

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
day o the bus trip. He tuik a stroll roun til the Dreerieshire Arm on page 60

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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A five-minute stroll up an doon
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Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Ah stroll taewards him and deliver yin
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Life's a stroll, it's a canter on page 114

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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
He loves nuttin maire than a stroll doon the beach and watchin th
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
the rain an this allows firra stroll the last five minute stretch on page 3

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@johnstone_shane tweeted
wurd stoat meanin a donder or stroll. We wid go a stoat. (2021) twitter link

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
ce, ye see, and went on a wee stroll. on page 63

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Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
toun. "I think I'll tak a bit stroll doun tae the hut," he had tho on page 37

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Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
€™s tagline itsel, ‘takes a stroll through some of Scotland’s
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South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
wi views, stroll by whaur thoosans endit shift on page 33

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@StuartPoet tweeted
permuirBooks Local variant, a stroll, dauner.(2020)

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