A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'root'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rootOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.63224
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 3
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of root in Corpus

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Orkney

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
sun-dried grape and chincher root, on page 18

1 matches

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
sun-dried grape and chincher root, on page 33

2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
can see whit's whit a muckle root braks fae the deck o the plan on page 153

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
half ruin half root on page 16

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
call yellow iris. I think the root o the name comes fae a sword (2020)

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ower offin, an a wid plaan ma root so's er wels nay mukkul car's on page 67

1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
Root toot n am oot! night night x(2012)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
fur compost, an howk up the root!
cut fae yer root while in yer prime,
Nae weeds wir iver seen tae root,
3 matches

West Central

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
hae blawn in the wind an taen root.
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
After tripping up oer a tree root and cursin the murky shaddaes
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
imit that in his attempts tae root oot corruption an bring in Pa on page 123

1 matches

Edinburgh

Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Terry Fae Brooklyn, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Aryshire, prose
r baths - no tae mention wir root. Mind you, the lassie wisnae on page 136

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
uckin Go chant again while ah root aboot in mah bag fur the knic on page 26

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
zus auld city cemeteries, tae root oot on page 29

1 matches

General Central

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
She wis awready root. on page 55

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Scots uses fir tae afore the root-mak o the verb. on page 23

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
suffer the tilt o a tap-root, heezit on page 107

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Muckle Michty Neep, (self-published 2021) Central, poetry
˜Michty! Yon’s the mucklest root
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
hooivver ye can aye hear the root wirds unnerneath. Fur exemple
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
ndonyms - aw stem fae the ae root. Gaelic wis the leid o the ea
estaunin wey but fae a shared root. This group taks in wirds sic
2 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
fae? Baith leids hae the same root. As dae mony European leids, (2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
insult now, some tree's ta'en root on page 22

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
'were extirpated root an branch'. on page 47
an trees will root on page 63

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
clump, thegither, wi tha yin root on page 15
An lea tha deep-sey tang'l root Abane tha tap. on page 25

2 matches

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
confused with the Old English root word? I've tholed, tholed it,(2020)