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The word 'troots'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
trootsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5164
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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) 441.7 5 1
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 troots in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
yed cairds, an telt jokes. Da troots, at dey aye got too, wis an a on page 93

1 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ent airts o the lochside. The troots warnae
it naw bi yin o thay ‘ferox troots’?” askit Trev.
size oniewey. The ‘ferox’ troots are can-
nibals an aet ither smawer troots sae its guid tae cleek thaim
ither troots growe. Ye’r troot haes a mu
5 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
we smertly vanished like burn troots ablow the stanes, intae that on page 31
hey learnt hou tae guddle for troots, an whaur the big troots cuid on page 74

3 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
n wis aye a guid airt tae see troots. It wis whiles daunderin ower on page 23

2 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
'd sticks bleezed roon dulled troots an blues ill-fun, on page 26
in licht its hingin sprickled troots on page 39

2 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
wer ships a’ roon the worl. Troots hung trimmlin in watter as cl
, snigs maistly, for the rail troots wur ower in the big watter wh
innlin, dullin an baggin. Big troots swem whiles in the lade, tae,
3 matches

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