Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'obsessed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

obsessed	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.7	12	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B	131	1	1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.6	2	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
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 obsessed in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
teenth birthday whin shü wis obsessed wi dem. Da box at still hedd on page 24
d, replaced by a solitary man obsessed wi wark (he hedd a fleet a lo on page 25

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Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
ae it mair than A wiz. Kind o obsessed wi it aw, he wiz. His lingo c
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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
week wearing Glengarry's etc..obsessed wi war, wierdos (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Aunty, Sharon. Ken? her who's obsessed wae the Royals." on page 170

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e colour, evrubdy's been pure obsessed wi mine. If yi ask me thir th on page 67
up on Charlene. She's totally obsessed wi Duffy. Ah used tae think i on page 169

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Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
r Keaton an that? Man, ah wis obsessed wi thon loun, for a while. Ah
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e wis. Perr bastard goat that obsessed wae googlin his ain symptoms
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Even they rancid pair ae self-obsessed twats Dougie and Craigy huvan
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ction in Gary's windaes. He's obsessed wi keepin his motor clean. Ah on page 63

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Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
seen as bein as independence-obsessed as the SNP, which is true, in
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