A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

roostin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1 3 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences52 2 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 1 2 1

Occurrences of roostin in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
roostin in yir rafters on page 71
ane's roostin on page 117

2 matches

Doric

Stewart, Del Tales Fae The Doric Side - Seaforth Road, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
roostin blaikbirds hiv still tae tak on page 70

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
owk, she sighed, she wadna be roostin in Barney’s scrap yaird een
1 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
birns, grey haggit stumps, a roostin car. on page 26

1 matches

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