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The word 'composed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
composedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71510
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of composed in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
affa glum, Ronnie." Chantelle composed hersel, smiled an strokit the on page 61

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
cud munage te leuk se calm an composed fin the place wis lke the het on page 42

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
st complicated pibrochs ivver composed fae the mind o man. Aifter a
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
tear ducts are clear o smell. Composed, I entered the board room and
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
yers is the latter make good, composed decisions. Perfect example, R (2021) twitter link
mirez family. Give 100%, stay composed, score goals and you’ll be a (2021) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
@rennie_mjr Nae so composed noo(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
A Lee, played music maistlins composed an fully arranged bi Wendy We
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Composed bi fowk ye'd think wid hae th on page 139

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n amang the gravestanes as he composed his sermon fer the follaein S on page 109
his man, pit pen tae paper an composed a couple o poems that were so on page 111

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
y first poem in Scots. It was composed in the shower at Dalnoid, dur
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
aid, “Ach Scott, A hud them composed afore we reached back tae the
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
impossible … that MQ 49 was composed by a male poet and ventriloqu
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ck-subservient chorus she had composed tae dispel onie ackwartness a on page 46

1 matches

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