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The word 'horrific'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
horrificOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.277
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 horrific in Corpus

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Orkney

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

Mid Northern A

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

Mid Northern B

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

Edinburgh

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

Glasgow

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

Ayrshire

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

General Central

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

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