A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'focussed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
focussedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 2
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of focussed in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
need to watch again as I was focussed on the scenery not the plot :(2014)

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
sert, he needit somethin mair focussed on the human vyce. He had the
The man’s attention focussed on her immediately. “That d
The man’s attention focussed on her immediately. “That d
3 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
The soond o Allan’s voice focussed his lugs. Apart fae the flapp
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ic acts or behaviours ur bein focussed on. This, in turn, implies th
gif they believe the array is focussed someplace else. They dinna ke
2 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
fir bairns at Primary schuil) focussed oan the dialect o Dundee: htt (2018) twitter link