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The word 'trowie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
trowieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.5359
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 186 32 6
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
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 trowie in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
"Fur whit a trowie lukkan sight - in fact, he l on page 56

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
curly doddies, trowie gloves, yule girse on page 79

1 matches

Mainland, Marlene Home Truths, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Shae's feelan trowie. Laev haar be.
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
rie man atween hosts, "I'm di Trowie Diel Faider. Mi name is Skyim on page 35

5 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
au /traui/ (trowie) on page 24

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Da nicht afore da Trowie Show, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
r sisters gittin ready for da Trowie Show. Whit a kerry on!
1 matches

Walterson, Vaila Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Da nicht afore da Trowie Show, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Da nicht afore da trowie show, der wis an aafil kerry
r wis an aafil kerry on in da trowie knowe.
2 matches

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
d. Oot on da Wastside in guid trowie territory, Michaelswood is ae
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
. We wir learnt aathing aboot trowie life at hame wi wir fokk. We
i modernisation threatenin da trowie wye o life, we wir ton wi da
ees. Den of coorse, dey learn trowie tunes, trowie dance steps, tr
tunes, trowie dance steps, trow literature
w undergroond schul. Wance da trowie chiefs mak up dir minds ower
6 matches

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
shoppin has fairly grippit da trowie community. Wir bairns wid sho
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
wi you. Mebbe even langer in trowie time.
o my year wis reportin on da Trowie Cup final. Aabody wis cheerin
2 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ir trows turned up. Usually a trowie rant has wan fiddler but dere
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
fed. “Dy beard is a trusset trowie beard, foo o dastreen’s sup
1 matches

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Da promise o a trowie shillin can wirk wonders,”
eenie. “I paid a weel earnt trowie shillin for dis.”
2 matches

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Dis is da time o year for trowie illness. We croog undergroond
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ter keep some things aboot da trowie wirld secret. I widna laek ta
is faimily aa aboot da peerie trowie freend he med in Shetland. No
n eye oot for ony signs o dir trowie mischief.
ttontief, he’s kent for his trowie tiefin skills. An we ir da pr
rtysleeves hiv come on wi dir trowie tricks. If a peerie trow jump
6 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Dirs a kindo trowie wye aboot danight #Shetland #(2013)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
sque creatures, who live in ‘trowie knowes’ (hill mounds) and on(2019)

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