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The word 'rogue'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rogueOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51511
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 rogue in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
folk wid say he wis cheust a rogue - a bit o a cad, a dirty dog on page 77

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
n tae flit the sistem, like a rogue comet? Agalis fer peedie stae on page 104

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
or illustratin Judge Dredd an Rogue Trooper) wi his pouerfu airtw
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Wully's cousin John's a right rogue, he's eighteen an he disnae w on page 126

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
hat's no aw. North Korea, the rogue Communist state that sae flus on page 129

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
. ‘’Look at him wae those rogue eyes. He has no shame’’ s
1 matches

General Central

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
gae...rogue.. gille...gae...rogue...dug...gaed...young...gillie on page 63

4 matches

Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
tain on a truncher tae the ‘rogue’ Tories, allooin thaim tae
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
tties at allotment from under rogue nasturtiums oh an anither plo(2020)
s a skelpit jynt o silverside rogue that has 3O sillered us sin J(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
border didnae investigate yon rogue Cummings.(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
A lik'able rogue, lived aboot Hunters Mill, on page 29

1 matches

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