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The word 'agony'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
agonyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62013
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
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 agony in Corpus

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Shetland

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
while my back and legs wir in agony underneat aa da ruckly stanes
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a stingin streetch o reed-het agony rippin the space atween ma le on page 67

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Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he backie and Catty myowin in agony. She’d jist gotten oot in t
e pathologist “They died in agony and it widnae hae been that f
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ld see the damage but seering agony passed throwe his guts and ma
e moved a fraction the searin agony came back wi a vengeance. He
terin atween gasps o screamin agony he felt as if the shudders we
o his groin and it wiz fuckin agony. Rab hid patted him on the ba
4 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
r. It looks as if it dee'd in agony. Whit's the bairn gaun tae th on page 60

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
When thinking of the agony of those who fought and died. on page 122

1 matches

Hawkins, Rudi None Shall Rest Easy, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central - Stirling, prose
ayin roon me; some groanin in agony, ithers silent. As ah see ma
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
ae love readin Ragashanti’s agony uncle column in raw Patois in
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Ah, stotterin aboot in blidy agony, quhan Ah’d faar raither be
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
appiness rather than shock an agony like Huey here. on page 28

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McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
up ootae bed an double err in agony. The sick's comin oot soon an on page 2

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
screamed an grained in mortal agony till the blessin o a short sw on page 37

1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
tressfu. Last nicht Ah wis in agony fae the tension. The day, Ah'(2020)
Ah woke at 6am in agony fae ma arthritic hip, then th(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
lice, jumpin up an doon in an agony o terror. "Aw, thur goes haes on page 59

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
d frae the tithe, In penitent agony, still alive, Aflame in hell; on page 59

1 matches

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