A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scrub'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scrubOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81917
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 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 3
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scrub in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I dae the washeen, scrub the floor, pit Jim's meals on on page 26

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
tae buildings or in patches o scrub, or on the salty shore – it
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
aff an heed fur thi beech tae scrub her bottem an get sum peece. on page 28

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ined fin Ah like - an Ah div scrub up weel." on page 28

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
thwards lay the mixter-maxter scrub o the Fittach breemy wids, lo
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
they walked hame through the scrub on page 25

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
is tae waash doon wa's or tae scrub pots an' pans fur the cook. on page 29

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
straight intae the shower. Ah scrub ma boady wae hoat water and s on page 147

1 matches

Peffers, Bob A Aboot Mid-Camps, Kirnitten, Bi East Cawther, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
a corrugated washin board tae scrub on. There wis nae, na nae, Pe
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
d diagonally across the hill. Scrub an’ bracken gave me cover b
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ce ae the wee man cannae even scrub oaff the symptoms ae bowel ca
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
He scrubbed till he could scrub nae mair on page 19

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
sh yer coupon, kaim yer hair, scrub yer hauns, prush yer wallies, on page 61

1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
Ye need tae scrub yersel in the shower fur hoor (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
e tell ye gie nae resistance, scrub up weel on page 77

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
hir freen had bin trained tae scrub frae the time she cud crawl, on page 48

1 matches

General Ulster

Mc Donnell, John , (Facebook 2021) Ulster, prose
spit oan it an nain to gently scrub aff tha mess.
1 matches

Robinson, Philip Tae a Virus, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, poetry
But scrub them weel, richt tae tha tips
1 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
ADFLEG Wash yer mouth out and scrub your hands after typin thon p(2017)

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