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The word 'illness'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
illnessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42418
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 illness in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
n't abort Alexandra, but this illness has made me realise she needs on page 25

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Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
is da time o year for trowie illness. We croog undergroond tae bid
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
s much. Ye've goat a terminal illness. on page 40

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - Obituary for David Ogston, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
dee'd recentlie efter tholin illness wi gryte humelitie an smeddum on page 12

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
, that tyned twa dochters tae illness buirit them wi explosives, sa
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oot tae git oor vote. It's an illness ae the mind, boady, and soul. on page 18

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
wis bedridden wi a paralytic illness fir maist o his short life - on page 5

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n, That this is a re-occurrin illness and if it persists ah 'll hav on page 25
in tae figure oot whit mental illness he had. Ah asked her if she'd on page 158

2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
th as he handin me a terminal illness. He wis the fuckin grim reape
wel movements. Sensin that ma illness widnae be treated as yin ae l
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
nt death fae his unrelentless illness. His show ae calmness and str
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
I see the illness like an ochre beam, a yellae on page 129

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Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
w at an advanced stage of the illness.’ the doactor sais.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
in hersel. She had missed her illness for five o sax months but had on page 55
guid health an scarce a day o illness in aa her thirty years. She w on page 66

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General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Like every other illness, of the body, mind or soul, on page 63

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
or til ony physical or mental illness or no-cannin. on page 14

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
recoverin frae his illness. on page 24

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Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
wis o a consumptive habit; an illness o the lungs better kent as tu
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
hat might steer the course of illness in the other direction" - tw(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
rated the tweet aboot trump's illness being mair transparent than a(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
through his last illness on page 65

1 matches

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