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The word 'obsession'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
obsessionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6159
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 488.3 3 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
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) 88.3 1 1
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 obsession in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
maet, an noo it cam ta be an obsession. Shü wis gane up drivin bi d on page 15

1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
What is the obsession we #MarieKondo aboot?? (2019) twitter link

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
llenged America: The Life and Obsession of Thomas Lipton, Laurence Br on page 125

2 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
he commercial side and the ‘obsession’, whit Lipton spent muckle
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
BC and it’s ‘impartiality’ obsession? Fit wis refreshing aboot CNN (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
His obsession wi the French Won the juicies on page 22

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
rich few get ivver richer The obsession wi siller that his brocht the on page 88
h fascination (tae the pynt o obsession?) wi aw things Roman an, as i on page 99
tentiousness? ignorance? self-obsession? - steerit up some derk feel on page 112
wey o thinkin is biggit on an obsession wi siller. The City o London on page 117

4 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
self worth an lead tae manic obsession wi the abstract concept ay ma on page 3

2 matches

General Central

@bigandymccoll tweeted
e Greenwash Sturgeon's gender obsession disnae take hold. She decided (2022) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Obsession finally burned tae bricht, on page 46

1 matches

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