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Use in varieties of Scots

embarrass Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.1 1.5 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences106 1 0 3 0 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of embarrass in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
is cunt's day right up. It'll embarrass the cunt, make him a laughin on page 23

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
bi the Labour Pairty jist tae embarrass the snp bi launin them wi a b on page 30

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ee pals an ah didnae want tae embarrass her. Wan wee boy wis even mai on page 169

2 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
If I still blend yer veg, embarrass ye when yer pals are in.
1 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
o you can deliberately try to embarrass and belittle her. Wit an abso (2018) twitter link

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
e awa faet aa athoot an care, embarrass tham, gie advice, are the Ban(2018) search twitter

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
naitter in parteekler wid embarrass him. Geoffrey christened him on page 38
vent in his life, du's no tae embarrass him." on page 39

3 matches

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