A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

horrendous Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1.5 6 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences83 4 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of horrendous in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
horrendous, on page 31

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
r an X-ray o ma lungs. It wis horrendous. The doctors hud nae idea whi on page 5

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
s gettin reduced - cos there horrendous the noo as aways lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
This maist horrendous escapade on page 15

1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
f the situation including the horrendous run we’re on. Do they expect (2021) twitter link
as done. the run we’re on is horrendous, should we expect Mcinnes for (2021) twitter link
alternatives? Jeesus it’s a horrendous political landscape. Time for (2020) twitter link

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@TheEliselise Awful, horrendous, but better found than not. P (2021) twitter link