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The word 'poisoned'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
poisonedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.966
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 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of poisoned in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
ear ta be particularly... not poisoned ¯\_(?)_/¯ (2021) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
hae been convictit fir pittin poisoned baits aa aboot the glen tae k
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
wurkt, beyond the Black Cart poisoned white wi effluent, the Presst
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
innae think thon berries were poisoned, dae ye?" Klaus asked, a bit on page 79

1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ed how much Scotland had been poisoned agin us by NS. You were oor b (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
A'm as seeck as a poisoned pup. on page 19

1 matches

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