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The word 'roald'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roaldOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
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 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of roald in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Musical. This is the saicont Roald Dahl buik tae be owerset inta
hort Scotland haes makit thae Roald Dahl Scots owersettins nummer
Coo is dargin awa on a third Roald Dahl owersettin intae Scots o
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
wersettin intae Scots o twa o Roald Dahl's stories cried The Eeji
1 matches

General Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Ma gran's dug-eared copy o a Roald Dahl book, on page 23

1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
, and the latest instalment o Roald Dahl classics, Chairlie an th
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
hy-coo provide translations o Roald Dahl classics, as well as hun (2018) twitter link

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
The Scotch folk hae pit Roald Dahl intae Scots. Wheeker for (2015) twitter link