A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

embarrassing Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 4.5 4.4 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences129 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 7 1

Occurrences of embarrassing in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
her mouth. "Oh Monsieur, how embarrassing." on page 3

1 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
but knew fleein would be more embarrassing. When ah stood up in front of on page 7

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
Stop talking. Your accent is embarrassing. You are putting me off my ex on page 4

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
I’m a total embarrassment, embarrassing him like that. He knocks uz o
1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
ate, we're that bad. 25pts is embarrassing, could be double that come se(2017) search twitter
ist offers him another trial? embarrassing(2014) search twitter

@annieones tweeted
animals. Should he be there, embarrassing UK ???? ?? (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ments about them were not and embarrassing and out of order - your stat (2021) twitter link
sFootie @WickAcademyFC and ur embarrassing reply lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
@jay_mfc It’s getting embarrassing and we’re getting a wee bit (2020) twitter link
Jack @BBCSportsound Really is embarrassing at times, need tae get Stuart (2020) twitter link
pile on fae the likes o you. Embarrassing (2020) twitter link