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The word 'roddy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roddyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3105
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
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 10.5 8 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of roddy in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
akin that a bit too far there Roddy FFS Thatcher?(2021)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
ye ken. In a wee hoose doon e roddy fae the fairm - but na, Ah s on page 43

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Stewart Conn, Bill Bryden an Roddy McMillan, oor feelin wis stra on page 35
thair wide audience. Indeed, Roddy McMillan's All in Good Faith on page 39
ugh (1972), in whase cast wis Roddy McMillan, an McMillan's ain T on page 40

3 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
cott and All in Good Faith by Roddy McMillan.
drew Keir, Russell Hunter and Roddy McMillan cut their teeth wi i
an cut their teeth wi it, and Roddy McMillan’s first play wis A
3 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
n of a coupla NEC candidates. Roddy, here, and also our Internati (2022) twitter link
coffing) and then one evening Roddy, having been contacted as a p (2022) twitter link

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