A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'rones'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ronesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
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 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 rones in Corpus

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West Central

Ellet, Tom Lallans 104 - Smirr, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
an the rain is plashin in the rones an a droukit dug is yowlin oo on page 19
an the rain is plashin in the rones, an that's the end o ma tale. on page 21

2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
the windae, ayont the dreepin rones and iley tarmac and rotten fe on page 17

1 matches

Robertson, James Melt (Yin), (Kettillonia 2001) Central, poetry
oorie girnin makar haunts the rones;
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
The watter alang the rones on page 19

1 matches

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