A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hyperbole Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 3.6 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences77 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of hyperbole in Corpus

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Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e up this morning, the verbal hyperbole ejaculating from your gub has on page 33
that the phrase, 'the verbal hyperbole ejaculating from your gub', w on page 34
s, jist as the wirds, verbal, hyperbole an ejaculating are Scots. A P on page 36

5 matches

Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
ga for the pure affront o its hyperbole.
1 matches

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Scot hypobole in this time of hyperbole)(2020) search twitter

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