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The word 'rooster'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
roosterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5185
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.3 8 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 112.4 8 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rooster in Corpus

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General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
31 Dar Oma the rooster he keckilt airlie frae's midd on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
t's no a real chicken. It's a rooster. That means it's the daddy o on page 76
y. It wis her favourite magic rooster an she loved it very much. Th on page 77

8 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Jist thi rooster left ti on page 32

1 matches

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
A rooster seen the pancake. Hae sed,
yae, pancake.’ “Guid day, rooster,’ sed the pancake.
“Stap,’ sed the rooster. "Dinnae go sae fast. A want
he hen. A didnae stap fur the rooster. A cannae stap fur yae.” An
he hen. A didnae stap fur the rooster. A cannae stap fur yae.’ An
6 matches

Stewart, Kenny The Wee Broon Hen, (no publisher recorded 2022) Ulster, poetry
The big golden rooster would be a guid mate for the
But to picture her and the rooster the gether ye can only tak my
2 matches

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