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Use in varieties of Scots

sproot Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.5 0 9.9 23.2 0 4.4
Number of occurrences115 0 1 4 0 1
Number of authors9 5 1 2 1

Occurrences of sproot in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
pin mooths, the bluidy wounds sproot on page 38

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
Gin it is jist a syboe sproot or the spirl o a rose, ye can on page 22

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
That tottie bean began tae sproot. on page 15

1 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
while neeps dae sproot on page 12

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
Sae whit wey daes it suddenly sproot oot intae the North East, Ang
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Olaf's screens bleusk, blue, sproot, staedy. He haals thaim intae on page 121

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
is hae aa menner o things dat sproot fae da grund, plants an flooe on page 3
ot o da aert, an budder dusna sproot fae da grund. As surely as pa on page 27
s rich an ready fir plants ta sproot. on page 35

3 matches

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
izes. Some hae joost a peerie sproot fae dir chin. Idders hae a st
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
n ah wunnered if feathers wud sproot frae her skin.
1 matches

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