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hurts Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 6.9 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1614 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors15 13 1 1

Occurrences of hurts in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
this boy an the girl that he hurts, on page 32
I'm sorry that it hurts yer heart tae inflict so much on page 48

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
er, poker, elbower. It fuckin hurts. Iona faffs sieepily wi her g on page 3

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McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
's just like ony exercise, it hurts at first then gets a wee bit on page 7

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Bothwell: Hurts ye? Hairms ye? on page 35

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McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
but they dinna spik it. That hurts me and worries me. In my ain
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Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
It hurts ower much tae care aboot a hi
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Fitt, Matthew Fae Mooth tae Page, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central, blog
only the dread of tears that hurts. Mr Pirrie distends on a loze
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Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
st be like for ye noo - that hurts me.
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Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
They all laugh. It hurts, him saying that in front o h
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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Playin’ whaur it really hurts, he took the scars an’ pain
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
aggle. “There wisna a lot o hurts in the bouk.”
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@Chazzbat tweeted
me. Ma face is swollen an it hurts like buggery. Ah've bin necki(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
sinatra m8 - ffs love really hurts wae oot u - mone the bell lo (2020) twitter link

Doric

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
ects wid be ‘no’... my heid hurts ??(2020) search twitter

Southern

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Aye Ah growe aulder an it hurts me ti see thaim.
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