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Use in varieties of Scots

trolls Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1 1.5 0 0 10.3 7.7
Number of occurrences62 1 0 0 1 2
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of trolls in Corpus

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Central

@LowEndJardo tweeted
al ballot, yer actual feeding trolls intae careers as right wing w (2021) twitter link

@MizLiot tweeted
ccusing Scottish fowk o being trolls for writing in their ain lang (2021) twitter link

Doric

Uri, Antonia Fit tae dae aboot obesity?, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
n, aa o a sudden, a haundfu o trolls pop up (at least hauf o them
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
@ColinBurnett16 Trolls easily rebutted mate. Dinnae (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
ig troll baes unner the brig. Trolls ait billy goats.’ Wee Billy
€œThe troll wull naw ait mae. Trolls dinnae ait wee billy goats.â€
2 matches

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