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The word 'captured'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
capturedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12921
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 65.5 5 1
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of captured in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
goodness! Grant seems to have captured da energy o da storm ? I'm gr(2020)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ar in occupied Europe and wiz captured by the Gestapo. The actress w
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
during Wardle War Twaa an wis captured bi the Japanese Airmy aat the(2020)

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
she captured their exuberance on page 33

1 matches

General Northern

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
it an Italian prisoner o war, captured in North Africa an brocht aa on page 27

1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
e roe” he thocht “but nae captured neither”. He tramped ower t
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Were they no captured baith on page 6

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
r the natural rhythm o speech captured weel raither nor squeezin wor
1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
an’ ah didn’t want tae be captured or brainwashed by theym, they
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Only now huv eh captured thi on page 113

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
r kill them aw. Gin they were captured attackin the King they had na on page 17
entre o the toun. Whan he wis captured he hid pit up in reid letters on page 122

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
at ‘henchman’ juist aboot captured it.
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Nae excuses noo Danny boy. Captured man.
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
a’s and the headline, I was captured by an Alien and we had sex fo
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
meenister, the Rev John King, captured at Rutherglen the nicht afore on page 36
an Bothwell had been wounded, captured, an cairtit aff tae Embro - on page 40
le o Bothwell Brig - or were captured an cruelly executed, some wi on page 51
rk later that, o the five men captured, twa dee'd o their wounds in on page 54
ine o Bonshaw an his troopers captured young John an William Campbel on page 58

5 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
. Nought but Harry Potter hus captured ma imagination like this, unt on page 27

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
knew the minit they might be captured. They might open a door in so on page 47

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
na mak it but John wis nivver captured.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
ng tae four Covenantin rebels captured aifter the Battle o Rullion G

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
some folk. That's hoo he wis captured.

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
captured the temper that he socht. on page 21

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Fae captured goat wull make mae name on page 47

1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ions adae wi' Ulster-Scots ir captured, evaluated an publicised taak on page 12
ions adae wi' Ulster-Scots ir captured, on page 72

2 matches

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