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The word 'arrested'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
arrestedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5159
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of arrested in Corpus

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General Northern

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
e chair only tae be instantly arrested and held doon by the shooders
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
wi daen wrang enough tae get arrested. It must be Johnny. Fu ae mis on page 1

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
aw committments or a will get arrested lol (2020) twitter link
pinion? - ffs youll b gettin arrested shortly fir farting in public (2021) twitter link
auld bill called it a day and arrested the snitch for wasting there (2020) twitter link
r people now getting arrested for having a pop at the fm lo (2021) twitter link
should b arrested fir wearing khaki shorts! (2021) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ah wis arrested nine times in the Strike, on page 78

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
A grat when the Red Soldiers arrested ye an’ wheeched ye off tae
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Mynt tae hae ma Rab arrested. on page 15

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
ng that happened wis they git arrested bi the Spanish polis an they on page 47

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
hoping at the end o it , he's arrested and frogmsrched straight aff (2020)

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An blinkin weel had me arrested. on page 36

1 matches

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