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Use in varieties of Scots

tormented Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.6 3 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences105 2 1 2 0 0
Number of authors7 3 2 1 1

Occurrences of tormented in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
aped fae whitever it wis that tormented him; fae whitever troubles it on page 12

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
hat "fought for her heart and tormented her" struck a strang cord wi on page 58

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
"Ye stupit eejit!" The Devil tormented him all the way back to his b on page 43

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
n the park, we saw him gettin tormented by aulder lads. They took his
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
aped fae whitever it wis that tormented him; fae whitever troubles it
1 matches

Doric

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ver let on. Me an Dexter jist tormented him aboot it but said that we
1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
that fought for her heart and tormented her. You hated the land and t
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
… the Broonie o Helliehowe tormented a family in a nearby ferm tae
1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
raetir wis aafil vexed. So da tormented sowl shargit, 'Fedder Abraham on page 125

2 matches

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