A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'trolls'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
trollsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of trolls in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
n, aa o a sudden, a haundfu o trolls pop up (at least hauf o them
1 matches

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
ccusing Scottish fowk o being trolls for writing in their ain lang (2021) twitter link

General Central

@LowEndJardo tweeted
al ballot, yer actual feeding trolls intae careers as right wing w (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@ColinBurnett16 Trolls easily rebutted mate. Dinnae (2020) twitter link

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
ig troll baes unner the brig. Trolls ait billy goats.’ Wee Billy
€œThe troll wull naw ait mae. Trolls dinnae ait wee billy goats.â€
2 matches

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