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Use in varieties of Scots

distress Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 2.1 4.5 9.9 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences114 3 1 3 0 0
Number of authors11 4 3 1 3

Occurrences of distress in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A'll suppres ma distress till the point ye'll can say on page 13

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
down by distress.' on page 65

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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
d thaim be imitatin a caaf in distress,” he sayed. “Or drive tha
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e r basically trying to cause distress - heartless (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
e breist. There'll be muckle distress i the cuntra an God's wrath w on page 115

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
distress signals were oot again, the a
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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
r, obviously in some degree o distress. Whether this wis fae exertio
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
craa that caused him no end o distress, on page 16

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
be nae mair greetin, nae mair distress. Nae ill sal come ta peerie t on page 63

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Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
nixt door, lack an animal in distress. Shü peered troo da fence, a on page 29

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De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
in a day o distress on page 96

1 matches

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