A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'suffering'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sufferingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 suffering in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
o 8 General Hosp Rouen France suffering from gunshot wounds arm and h on page 38

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
s, it felt like grief for the suffering still to come mixed with love(2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Say fit like tae the lang suffering Mrs Doric Phrases aat the Cru(2016)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
er! Our state's but a state o suffering frae beginning to end; an rea
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ed wae oot fans n the game is suffering big time (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
nly son to a school career of suffering wi that name. Evan Evans, chr
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
"Deprivation! Pain! An’ Suffering!"
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
a District Hospital. You’re suffering from shock after your close b
1 matches

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