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The word 'hellish'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hellishOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22017
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hellish in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
m, cry, move, and I feel this hellish foreboding that something is on page 85

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@peediepuss tweeted
Oh cheers! Sheu wis coorse an hellish unsoond (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
y? I keen bein in lockdoon is hellish, but if fokk ir goin tae keep(2021)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
hong. He grinned - it leukit hellish uncomfortible an pit im in my on page 44

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a ain piece. "It's absolutely hellish!" on page 31

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General Northern

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
d hair an Ellen got caad some hellish things because o her skin. An on page 58

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North East Central

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
In a clearin in this hellish jungle wis an ornamental fish
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Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
The carnage wis sae hellish that it teuk the polis an the
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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
The wunter o saxty-fower wis hellish lang an bitter cauld. For mon on page 85

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An help ma hellish plans succeed? on page 93

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
isin buiks for tennis baws. A hellish owdience bets on whuther the
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
oined the skriechin wind in a hellish choir. The trees creaked and
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
smell? Whit hellish trick wis this? Try as they m on page 94
fine that this wis a nicht o hellish cantrips an demonic orgy led on page 118

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General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
He widnae bliss sic a 'hellish pairin', on page 15

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Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Cain, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
And dae some hellish badness on page 73

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Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
p an piled intae a truck. Sic hellish destruction, an aw duin in th
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South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
waefu routh o daicent wather, hellish sun an drouth. on page 77

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@StuartPoet tweeted
on our minds, govt scandals, hellish weather, fear, mistrust, conf(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Or deils fashin in Hellish pain. on page 18

1 matches

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