A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

horrific Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences74 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of horrific in Corpus

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Central

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
nicht. Aboot hauf midnight, a horrific roar came fae outside the cab
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
oth oan the side ay his face; horrific an unnatural an the boay’s
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
n and effectively dealin wi a horrific accident in the thrang toon c
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
is ah cannae shake oaff this horrific dark cloud that’s hoverin o
1 matches

Doric

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@scotsfilmguy Yon language is horrific in that article.(2020) search twitter

@McGoo1888 tweeted
@macbreeza Ahm ah horrific mess anaw...wis fit 30 yrs ag (2022) twitter link

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@helen_nisbet Horrific. Coorse wark them days (2020) twitter link