A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ceased'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ceasedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ceased in Corpus

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(South) East Central

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
. Hee haw wis thare. Mah hert ceased its bangin 'n' mah mynd calme
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
itent circumstances o his hud ceased tae fash. He wis done wi aw p on page 133

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
those days have lang ceased tae exist; on page 23

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
tly whan the Pechtish kinrick ceased tae exist, but a note on the
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
he Aye campaign haes lairgely ceased tae exist as a coherent entit
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Bit oanly whin they ceased throughpit. on page 58

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
e stairtin this buik an niver ceased tae remine me o the fect it n on page 1

1 matches

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