A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'roadrunner'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roadrunnerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.171
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 35.9 7 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 roadrunner in Corpus

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Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
e skinny wan we aw called the Roadrunner, cos he's rapid. The elder wa on page 3
zie is faster than the fuckin Roadrunner when the trouble starts!' on page 10
up. The young wan we call the Roadrunner is aff n runnin nearly at me on page 34
platform, lyin doon low. The Roadrunner tries tae charge up the hill, on page 35
y polis n his skinny pal, the Roadrunner. A kin hear the young wan on on page 43
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