A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'headache'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
headacheOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.243
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 headache in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
hae ta wait until dis bastard headache passes.(2021)
Gotten a splittin fuckin headache an I need tae go an get bin b(2021)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ell am gonna have one massive headache picking games each weekend - (2020) twitter link

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
on the "stabbed in the heid" headache tae mak an appearance. #MSsuc(2020)