Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

overwhelmin	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.2	3	1.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	7	6	1	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	5	1

Occurrences of overwhelmin in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
s oan the lichts. The pain is overwhelmin but no enough tae conk me oot on page xix
bathroom. The smell o pee is overwhelmin. Ah'm gaun tae huv tae sit at on page 6

2 matches

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
s the baw away. The relief is overwhelmin. Then a hear the final whistl
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n, everythin he’s tellin me overwhelmin me an he reaches oot, strokin
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
cied an wis feart o in equal, overwhelmin proportions, flashed a wee sm
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
hile ah try tae overcome this overwhelmin feelin ae inconsolable dread.
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
en awa, tae be replaced wi an overwhelmin sadness at her ain loss but f
1 matches