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Use in varieties of Scots

violent Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.1 8 3.2 0 0 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences1915 2 0 0 1 1
Number of authors14 10 2 1 1

Occurrences of violent in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
she did, an giein it an awfy violent shake at the end ae every lin on page 60

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
delaire bairns looked at him. Violent, ridd-faced, felt the stane i on page 8
Violent kent fine weel that Sunny wid on page 114

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Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
outhir be dede or manance or violent presumpcioun ande he ask soue on page 23

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McFarlane, Ishbel Time tae mairch oot o oor climate comfort zones, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
ower the warld, in acts o non-violent cívil disobedience. A bricht
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
ff the hook. Maist Scots were violent an opportunistic in Jamaica,
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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
use ah’ve never seen such a violent injury afore. No in real life
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s haan tae rid his sister o a violent husban. He brocht her intae t
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Ewen, Allan Review: Saltire: Invasioun, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
whit is generally a gritty an violent story. It’s a clever yaise
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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
ah’ve never seen sumhin sae violent afore. No in real life onywiy
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Facebook link ( 2016) Central
An odd man, a quiet, non violent man whae went his ane way dai

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
him tae threaten torture an a violent death.

@Cobradile94 tweeted
pster Jeezo the authority git violent in Americae!(2019) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
all adult males are dangerous violent cahunts.... imagine being her (2022) twitter link

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
The violent violets o the weather on page 16

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
as she did so, an givan id a violent shake at e end o every line: on page 57

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Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
as she did sae, an gien eet a violent shoogle at th end o ev'ry lin on page 59

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Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
tae tha Kïngdom o Heiven, an violent men ir takkin houl o it. Fer on page 9

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