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The word 'violence'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
violenceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.23924
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 17.9 7 4
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 38 7 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 16 12 7
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 violence in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Violence will oot, best be in the driv on page 27

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
e last word wi so much sudden violence at Alice quite jumped; but sh on page 56

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
Nor will we resort tae violence!
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
by the hype o imported sexual violence on page 25
far the vast majority o violence against women on page 26

2 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
t think misogyny and domestic violence has disappeared and the paral (2020) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
the nobility tae heel through violence an intimidation, includin imp
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Tae bell the cat (wi risk o violence)." on page 8

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Yet sex-plus-violence, as aabody kens Is the cinema on page 18

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
condone violence. But I guess you could say th on page 71
coke or ma knack fur mindless violence but suddenly ah've goat an ur on page 146
ae. There should be nae maire violence though. Oan accoont ae no wan on page 181

3 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
Scotch Soccer: Robbery / wi' violence, an the auncient anonymous va on page 123

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
n. He wisnae above robbery wi violence when it come tae getting the
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ithin us aa - luve or poure, violence or heartpeetie, resignation o on page 102

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
e calm, but a kin o spiritual violence - it's fowk bein shoutit dou
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
cal union wi nae suggestion o violence, likewise there are monie o t on page 129

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Thi night turns ti violence on page 62

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
almly, “efter generations o violence, we micht be the tender sex,
luve, or an unspeakable act o violence.” He paused for effeck. “
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
well as being the victims of violence, they are the perpetrators of on page 54
r n she's nae concept ae gang violence or retribution. on page 56
ect. In my experience of gang violence, such actions are widely whis on page 57
ecent increase in territorial violence: ' on page 59

6 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e witnessed countless acts ay violence borne fae the ignorance ay bl
1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
the place drouned in violence an bluidshed. on page 30
bi your violence, bi your ill-naituredness. on page 34
The Fower Maries: The violence o his haunds is weighed - on page 35

3 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
audit crimes o indescrievable violence agin wimmen. Baith hings are on page 4

1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
bjectis frae injust force and violence on page 23

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Polis violence at a protest i the caipital c
ty o Londonov – whaur polis violence, noo a common sicht at Britys
2 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
. The streets then turned tae violence as a minority o Na activists
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
the USA hae tae say aboot sic violence bein brocht agin a minority
ess for the abuses an lees an violence that haes became aw ower clea
2 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
helters when thur subject tae violence, but thur's nae need tae stop(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
rgive him fer sayin “why the violence?” Wen no a soul touch him we(2020)

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