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The word 'grouse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grouseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51812
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 grouse in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
fit ipon him. I nivver see da grouse, just hear dat low hurrin noi on page 91

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
ie Robertson an me wis at the Grouse Inn for some refreshment the on page 94

2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
life but nou anely exists for grouse shoots an postcairds.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
ies are oot thonder, shooting grouse on the hills, buying up fanto
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
locals, guinea fowl and sand grouse fluttered noisily oot o his p
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
raed grouse on page 87

1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
ack up fae a quarter bottle o Grouse he’s bought at the offie, a
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
a brace o grouse on page 67

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
t on the fly in Januar on the grouse muirs an gied tae the BBC by
hares at aw on their managed grouse muirs.
t’s aboot protectin the rid grouse fae disease; ticks an the lik
e craiturs ar predators o rid grouse. An fine they ken: the hen ha
r mair, juist like the hares, grouse feed on heather an gress. Sae
6 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
Grouse moors can get so far tae fuck(2019)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
the wee grandsons in bed, the Grouse is comin oot ??(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Black Grouse rat-arsed on page 71

1 matches

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