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The word 'amused'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
amusedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41812
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 1
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 amused in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
dazzled and kept us amused on page 144

1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
stood whit shae meant but hid amused is. Anither's nephew kept pro

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
tory The twa o them were fair amused A toilet pan that royalty's u on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
t Winnie cud tell at he wisna amused. on page 19

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ie fa tries er best te keep's amused. Ilky ither day it's bingo, b on page 46

1 matches

Mid Northern B

Martin, Keiron Ma Worst Nicht Oot, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
rawlies came free bit a wisna amused. So he took ma denner awa and
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
, aire's swings tae keep them amused an plenty o trees gien shade on page 5

1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
Am nae at a amused at moray cooncil....grrrrrr(2011)

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
A Jist looked at her wi’ amused resignation an’ telt her,
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
erriakin leukit puzzlet, than amused. “Quhit dis thoo caal that?
an leuch again. She jynt in, amused be his openness. “Ah’ll t
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
roonie's da looks a wee bitty amused anaw. Aw seen n done before, on page 54

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
uestions aboot 'er upbringin, amused at the disbelief. on page 3

2 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
u are the day? Keep yer weans amused wi oor #Scots lairnin gemmes (2020) twitter link
Keep yer weans amused wi oor interactive online gam (2020) twitter link
Got wee yins tae keep amused? Visit oor wee ferm: https:// (2020) twitter link
Keep the bairns amused wi oor new lairnin games! Cli (2018) twitter link