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The word 'arrest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
arrestOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus31010
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
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 arrest in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
yirsel. An pit es chiel unner arrest, for he haes tint his wuts aa on page 82

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
much later story concerns an arrest made by McChubb the Polis on on page 118

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
a mum passed awey wae cardiac arrest. Least, that's what the doact on page 91

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
t imagine the polis tryin tae arrest everyone - ad pay tae c that (2020) twitter link

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt La Le La Le La Iron Mountain, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
cairds- nae trials- an house arrest
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
lieve that this wull help tae arrest the decline in nummers that h on page 39

1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
dy shal be gart thole wulsome arrest, detention nor exile.
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
rs as they wur kent. Thur wis arrest, fines, imprisonment, torture

@DABArbuckle tweeted
lis didnae tak the chance tae arrest her for corruption, theft and(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
nstantly fae a muckle cardiac arrest, his face is smashed to the p(2020)