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Use in varieties of Scots

rollers Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 1.5 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences74 1 0 1 0 1
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of rollers in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
We skin up a couple ay pre-rollers each an me an McDade grab ano
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
It’s the high-rollers like yer man that ur intae it
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
~sidit wuiden hutch, a box on rollers at the end o a runway that le
o the hutch an ran it on its rollers the wee distance intae the mi
2 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a throwe a mungle, the widden rollers flattenin the claes an squeez on page 87

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
familiar faces a da Bay City Rollers on da box dey gie Sarah fur h on page 24

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
on the street. She untied the rollers, brushed oot the curls an cat on page 18

1 matches

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