A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'croo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
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 1.3 1 1
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 croo in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Me puggie's Billia Croo on page 12

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
resque Baggy an hee's massive croo. Be eis tyme their weis a fay on page 12
pper weiss, "Aik Don", An thi croo weis "Aleckie John" ma aul su on page 19
So hee geid ma tae thi croo tae beyl, cus aat's fit hee h on page 27
n's hoo tae look aifter hec's croo," a thocht, "'A'l furgive em on page 30
ud o an ither Boddim lad, tae croo we ma, so aye mornen me and S on page 55

5 matches

General Central

Foyle, Ghillie Lallans 58 - The Hildebrand Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
n scant an puirtith in a wee, croo houss on page 87

1 matches

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