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The word 'retorted'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
retortedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.655
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
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 retorted in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
iel's a richt ***** scunner!" retorted Wittgenstein. on page 90

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
the table, shook his heid an retorted." Naething,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
"Fool!" retorted the Devil. on page 43

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
extreme seeming patter. So he retorted, ‘aye. Yer a fucking tool!â
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
'A can smoke whan A like,' retorted daft Annie, 'juist like ma si on page 22

1 matches

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