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The word 'skroo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skrooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6156
ORK - Orkney 79.5 8 2
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
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
DUN - Dundee
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of skroo in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
A SKROO WI A TWIST on page 69
"Aal big aap thee skroo!" said afore he wis asked. on page 70
In no time at a he hid a fine skroo, on page 71

6 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Skroo on page 4

2 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
t dried enough ta get da last skroo biggit, an da hidmast tatties
1 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
yard we hurried, till a coarn skroo left ower fae last year. Ald
steed, an we could see at da skroo wis bön biggit ower a muckle
unter, lyin rostin anunder da skroo. I goes ootside, my hert a my
3 matches

Watt, Valerie Back tae trowie schul, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
caa hide-an-seek skuttamilla-skroo. We played dat an aa.”
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
O the skroo on page 115
The gell splet the skroo on page 118

2 matches

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