A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

exaggeration Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 0 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 0 2 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of exaggeration in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
his letter when a huge bee no exaggeration came flyin through ma window on page 123

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
im. I dinna think that is ony exaggeration. His international reputation
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e wis prone tae the odd bit o exaggeration. Faither used tae say, “Aa
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ckin lavy pan. And it’s nae exaggeration tae say that the kitchen is a
1 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
he film crew - weel a slight exaggeration! - on page 26

1 matches

Hume, Caroline Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Spice hid up, pepper wae exaggeration on page 126

1 matches

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