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The word 'roak'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roakOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7123
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
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 145.4 8 1

Occurrences of roak in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Stud thonner, on tha leevin roak on page 1

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Willicks hoaked frae roak an wrak on page 4
Tha strans o roak lake yella-man on page 26
Oot o a nieve o leevin roak, on page 52

3 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Biggin on tha roak on page 8
n you ir Petér', an on thïs roak A wull big ma kirk, an aa tha on page 9
deep an set tha fïttins on a roak, an whaniver tha rïver wus à on page 80
nae be saved. Tha seed on tha roak ïs tha yins that gledlie gie on page 83
ït ïn a tomb cut oot o tha roak, whar naebodie haed bin layed on page 110

8 matches

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