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Use in varieties of Scots

painful Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.6 4.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences139 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors9 5 3 1

Occurrences of painful in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
cruel culmination ae thae twa painful years on page 7
an, aye, it wis difficult, painful an lang, an it gied me the bo on page 94

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
The painful truth wis, the thirties hud a on page 87

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Some painful, or mebbe that wan's jist too on page 111

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Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
I thought. It wis incredibly painful though, as ma ankle wis still
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Pennie, Len The year A shouldnae hae had, (tictok 2022) Central - Kilmarnock, poetry
painful and lang and it gied me the b
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
what will be a long and very painful few hours fur him.
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
And they’re gigglin. Dirty, painful soondin laughs, n aw. It quic
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@Chazzbat tweeted
ty These ur works o art. It's painful tae watch thum cut intae thae(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
d already been, we heard this painful kind o whinin an a thrashin i
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Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
aakened?” Douglas managed a painful nod.
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Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
rse aa o ye an. yer young tae painful an affa deiths.” The hoose
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
site o da accident da flude a painful memories owerwhelmed him. He on page 57

1 matches

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