Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ruff'

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Use in varieties of Scots

ruff	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.2	14	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	12.2	5	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	55.8	4	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 ruff in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Thi sea is strong, Thi sea is ruff on page 35

1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
fowk gied thaim black bun an ruff't thaim fae the toun. on page 95
"Gin aat disna 'ruff thaim fae the toun'," she tho on page 101

2 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
@Bleu_Innes ruff iday?(2014)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
An a ruff roon its throat
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
whan the ruff o the stame generatour als di
didna lat bug. Naither did he ruff
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
es - aye the burra is gettin ruff likes - tut tut! (2021) twitter link
pal harry kane is gettin the ruff treatment aff o man u - keep (2020) twitter link

General Central

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e, in a smaw wey, I waant tae ruff ma feet in respeck for their
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
wolf o’ a dug jumps oot an RUFF RUFF RUFF RUFF’s et me.
RUFF RUFF RUFF ’s et me.
2 matches