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The word 'shocking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shockingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1137
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 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 2369.7 1 1
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shocking in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ale @AbzPodcast @pressjournal Shocking attendance for Drew, he’d ge (2022) twitter link
doos, pit it awah, but he was shocking (2020) twitter link

@daleser23 tweeted
need tae sort yersel oot cj. #shocking(2013)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
t you and @NicolaSturgeon are shocking. Don't agree with someone's p(2019)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
EdinburghLive_ its normal not shocking - far too easy to nick a cyc (2020) twitter link
statement says it all guys - shocking! (2020) twitter link
cott them its the only way - shocking (2020) twitter link
1 cant argue with that - its shocking - lets hope marcus rashford (2020) twitter link
for the fans and the clubs - shocking! (2020) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

West Central

@annieones tweeted
m sorry tae hear, i think its shocking we've been made to feel that (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
r the past 10 months and it's shocking. Used to love sitting on the (2020)

South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)

BardOfMilebush Untitled poem, (Reddit 2017) Ulster, poetry
, my pals, and dinnae find it shocking That many like me, in Ulster,
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