A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'troll'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
trollOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 56.2 4 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of troll in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Shetland on Camera 2021) Shetland
peerie friend Rasmie da trow(troll) tae see Ertie da trow dis ef

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
and, and seem to be a kind of troll/fairy hybrid. They’re said t(2019)

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
lokiscottishrap He cried me a troll an blocked me... for scrievin (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
…….” Hod oan a meenit! Troll back a couple o’ answers!
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Ahint keyboards the wee troll hides; on page 104
Is there that troll wha sneers in shame, on page 105

2 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
Erra we troll muted! Shout intae a void wee(2020)

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
Big Billy Goat sed, “A big troll baes unner the brig. Trolls a
Billy Goat Gruff sed, “The troll wull naw ait mae. Trolls dinn
rig sed, “Trip-trip-” The troll sed, “Wha trips ower mae br
m? “Go on, then,’ sed the troll. “Trip-trip, trip-trip, tri
4 matches

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