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Use in varieties of Scots

fright Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 7.4 0 99.4 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2514 0 10 0 0 1
Number of authors13 9 3 1

Occurrences of fright 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.

Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
seemed tae quiver aw aer wae fright. "Och, ah'm awfy sorry!" crie on page 22
hem this size: they'd git the fright ae their lives!" So she stair on page 54
rnin them-" when she goat the fright ae her life, seein the Cheshi on page 62
i noo, an goat a wee bit ae a fright when she heard her voice nex on page 87
he gave a wee scream, hauf in fright an hauf in fury, an tried tae on page 120

5 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
that, fuck sake, A got a wee fright. Next time A'll be in aboot i on page 33

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ness At which the horse takes fright? on page 6

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
danger ae sufferin fae stage fright. The crowd, it seems, hus wen on page 56

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
criss cause ah went an got a fright aff her dog. on page 144

1 matches

Cunningham, Liam Tam, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Bellshill, prose
A goat the biggest fright ae ma life. A wiz hinkin thit
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
art. How ur you efter yer wee fright?’ she sais, placin her haun
, an it charged me. Ah goat a fright, know whit ah mean? It wis co
2 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
their parents a hert-stoappin fright by staunin beside thur beids
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna Tae A Selfie, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2014) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
But then wan photie gees me fright;
1 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
yes, "but I got mesel a right fright wi him wan day oot on the fie on page 19
ged man, that really leuked a fright on page 79
rd' beuy, no wey can they tak fright. on page 87

3 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
indow were twa eyes, roond wi fright on page 12
ggy owld craa that hid died o fright at the soond. on page 17
ns, we near gied each ither a fright! on page 61
ird wir plannan tae gie him a fright! on page 62

4 matches

Lamb, Gregor Lamb’s Tales, (The Orkney Dictionary 2005) Orkney, prose
t the door and I got a naafil fright whin hid swang open and me pe
a threshing bit I got a right fright.’
n the shoolder. He got such a fright thit he nearly drove intae th
3 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
', A shiver ower wi' tinglin' fright, My een wi' draps ir stramin' (2018) twitter link