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The word 'croose'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crooseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51510
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.2 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 56.9 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of croose in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
e bairn toons o Tau Ceti wi a croose reid face lairn a class o adu on page 41

1 matches

Aberdeen

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
wis wunnin back his ain self-croose. Tysday past, thou hid brocht on page 97

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
y claiss, neen but hissel wis croose eneuch ti assert his richt ti on page 53

1 matches

General Northern

Philip, George Tales Fae The Doric Side - Winter, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
His croose an canty raik warms up the da on page 80

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Thochts o Speakin Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2001) Central, prose
e schuils, juist think whit a croose an wycelike society we cuid h
ree better nor a side that is croose an cantie wi itsel. But the S
maitter o thaim gittin tae be croose in the speakin o't. They juis
nkin in Scots. Noo they're no croose an cantie wi speakin Scots ca
4 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
ut, for aw that, they war gey croose they cuid mak somethin happen
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
Less croose than swithered bi fear, on page 18

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
it, and it wid be cantie and croose lang efter tae look back on t on page 42

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
tae be solecisms, Ah hae had croose activists tell me at, sin the on page 56

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
"I'm Esther," come the croose voice. "Esther McCallum." on page 1

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
rsidneyp @Philae2014 We hae a croose tradeetion o spacers wi Neil (2014) twitter link
by the shore. Mair coorse nor croose noo... http://t.co/EBcPsv31IZ (2014) twitter link