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The word 'exhausted'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
exhaustedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51611
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 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
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 exhausted in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
s limp as a cloot. Completely exhausted, I cheust flaked clean oot. T on page 72

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Happy and exhausted wae heeded fur the toon on page 91

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
uine sit yersel doon, ye look exhausted!”
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
were beginin tae tell on her. Exhausted she drapped the steens an the
Exhausted an freezin Mary made it hame
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ience wae the cunt is finally exhausted. But just as ah'm aboot tae on page 169
baith physically and mentally exhausted. Tae the point when ah goat h on page 197

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
pandemic - they r bound to b exhausted - supermarket employers take (2020) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
ddum tae oor tired ideas, oor exhausted imagery. Micht Scots be the f
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
ange food for the wet, cauld, exhausted an’ starvin’ troops!
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
other, yin final time. Ah’m exhausted and look like shite and yae w
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
asleep before Isla got hame, exhausted in every sense o the word. Ah on page 14

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
spectrum, as ‘(emotionally) exhausted’, ‘depleted’, ‘fed up
. (e.g. German: erschöpft (exhausted)).
2 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
d for that.. Yer arms will be exhausted by the time yer finished... ? (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@montie No exhausted enough tae be deein in that d(2020)

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