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The word 'cough'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coughOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.84925
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 42 4 3
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 39 16 6
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 30.7 6 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.4 14 7
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 2
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 cough in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Someone *cough cough* has been paintin at nursery (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Cough, splutter! A dialect of Engli(2018)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
oughed again. Nuthin. Anither cough, an Dod pit his haan oot a we on page 107

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
he paper thin waas and so the cough keeps baith o us up half the
Cough.
2 matches

@Woodside Wullie tweeted
then supposedly followed by a cough fae the bairn’s mither? (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
e aright as long as you dinna cough or sneeze. I coukd wear a mas(2012)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Cough up, sir wolf, it's payment ti on page 31

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
A cough from a distant snug, on page 57
A cough - and then silence - on page 58

2 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
hey dinna hoast—oh no; they cough.
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
He'd nearly cough his heid aff an he looked jis
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
innamon baws, toffee doddles, cough candy, coulters candy, moffat
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
t wee man and stayed local - cough cough lol (2021) twitter link
g work is breathtaking btw - cough cough! (2021) twitter link
the coo shed at fauldhouse - cough cough lol (2021) twitter link
en how tae follow protocol - cough cough lol (2020) twitter link
spur oh the moment comment - cough cough lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
, hoo ma Faither hud gotten a cough, jist afore Huntigowk. The bu on page 18

1 matches

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
his cough disna ease his kingsize carci on page 141

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
nety wae this big cuz ae his. Cough, fuckin bullshite, cough, cou on page 8

3 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
he place, just the occasional cough or shout ay encouragement pie
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘ *cough* Hello, Mr. Coyle?’
. O’Henry – Tam. He, eh, *cough* he just passed away there, a
2 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
eid at sax months fae whoopin cough. This wis 1910. Her faither h
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
y's really sick. He’s had a cough fur as long as ah can remembe
erent fae the way he used tae cough, come fae deeper inside him s
2 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
ye got what ye required re: a cough bottle?.. Likewise tae yersel (2022) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
d tae say MEEEEEEEEEE! But Im COUGH! COUGH! SPLUTTER! SPLUTTER! G(2014)
Saturday now at end...Cough.. cough...splutter splutter. #Gratefu(2015)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
Surely naebody's offendit?! (cough, it's a tumshie, cough)(2018)

@weenell3 tweeted
GillDurham @bitchystichy This cough is doin my box in so it's ano (2022) twitter link
tonight. I've another chesty cough starting and needed tae heat (2022) twitter link
?????? i cannae laugh wi this cough ???? (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
@melissaterras @oldnorthroad Cough... ;-) This is by us, fir bai (2018) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ies, ongaun sangs o whaize an cough, a turravee or twae aye punct on page 77

2 matches

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
The youngest has got a cough each winter on page 48

1 matches

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