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The word 'frantic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
franticOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61211
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 frantic in Corpus

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Orkney

Forkin, Ellen Sea o Dunder, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
And the frantic scrabble
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
an wild. Her body language is frantic and shairp. "Ay ay, Miss Echi
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Oh Sweetie Pie ma position is frantic on page 170

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
anny Broon!" an haird souns o frantic actioun as Broon stertit shif on page 95

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Fair frantic wis Santa. "Och, whit can A d
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
mid-paced dam burstin, never frantic, but spoken in wee six word l on page 3

2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
el, receivit whit he cried "a frantic, emergency telegram" in the B on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ster Sunny, wha wis lookin aw frantic at her and tryin tae say some on page 122

1 matches

Robertson, James The Deil, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
The deein wife, frantic wi fear and starin-mad, warsl
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
peration. The puir wee hares, frantic, wi nae wey tae get awa, bein
1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
lose tae giein up an a wis aw frantic tryin tae save him! Bit he aw(2020)

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