Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'torture'

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Use in varieties of Scots

torture	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.5	21	10
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	9.8	3	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central	9.2	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	14.6	11	3
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 torture in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
pit through torture and strife, on page 13

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ess souns mair like a bliddy torture chamber then a treat, thocht on page 82

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
nger, wither like ess is pure torture."" He run a han ower is broo. on page 37

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
rryin oot the degradin darg o torture an capital punishment. Lesser
1 matches

General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
een chair wi its multipurpose torture apparatus next tae it which h
he would be there tae see the torture and it didna dae much for the
ma ah the wi tae Mengele’s torture chamber.
3 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
tae tantalise, torture , an tease.
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
aw-day streetch. It wis pure torture. Ah wis piked and rauzed aw o on page 103

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e Yvonne, She's nae idea whit torture she's lettin hersel in fur. Y on page 169

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
Naebody shal be gart thole torture nor ill-kindit, inhuman nor b
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
An the torture we hae been readin aboot ower
ns o the “guid guys”? Tae torture a mentally disabled cheil, th
ie Americans ready tae accept torture o terror suspects – no that
his is the corrputin effeck o torture on the society that practices
“jist ane o thae things”. Torture is, or shid be, ane o the rei
5 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
arrest, fines, imprisonment, torture , banishment as slaves in the

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
r wud be nae mair arrests, or torture , or hangin.

Facebook link ( 2020) Central
peety on the auld wummin’s torture . He waded oot an slit her thr

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
d or a fine, or prison, mibbe torture , mibbe tansportation tae the

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
ncil visited him tae threaten torture an a violent death.