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The word 'roller'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rollerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72912
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 53.2 12 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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) 197 6 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of roller 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
's Fower Mile Wreck. He hid a roller et his Ripper Line wid run th on page 3

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
t oot like the Wild West wi a roller coaster aat lookit like a tra on page 39

1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
an roller bladin an ice-skatin. on page 50

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She loves i' roller coaster. She loves i' dogems on page 111
ROLLER COASTER on page 168

12 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
a fag packet flat wi a steam-roller.' on page 1

1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
they wid bring the steam road roller! It had big wheels an a wee p on page 76

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
hen I see the auld green Team Roller, and the driver kens me an wa on page 23

2 matches

General Central

MacGregor, Rose Lallans 102 - The Big C Roller Coaster, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
The Big C Roller Coaster on page 69

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
it. It's jist like bein on a roller coaster!' And through the gle on page 139

1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
an here. Mind ye, it kin be a roller coaster o' guid moods and rag(2020)

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@iona_gibb roller in yin hand, phone in the oth(2012)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
oon wi the stappers o twa red roller boots.
on the reflectors o Jenny’s roller boots. It wud be quare an gui
heir bikes, Jenny chucked her roller boots ower her shouders an I
Jenny stapped tae attach her roller boots tae her feet. ‘Ah hea
dae? Ah’d seen Jenny on her roller boots. She was guid on the fl
6 matches

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