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The word 'coughed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coughedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61512
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 43.8 4 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of coughed in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
almighty crack and the engine coughed and died. on page 41

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The radio coughed up hid's pins-an-needles As w on page 6

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
at made things even worse. He coughed up mair rubbish and saw it wi
1 matches

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
painted far he wiz lying. He coughed an bluid spewed fae his moo.
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
dna gie up hope richt awa. He coughed ahin his haan an waited. Nivv on page 107

2 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
put ma hand up tae ma moo and coughed hard.
I coughed hard again.
2 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
tae gie us onymair till me Da coughed up. And ma Da bein ma Da hid on page 42

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
coo at the back ae the hedge coughed. Howie jumped, then huntit it on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
the table towards him. Wullie coughed.
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
The hostler coughed discreetlie an murmelt tae hi
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
eezin darkness, but ah huvnae coughed since the nicht ah arrived.
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Da wis mortified the day he coughed up brown fluid thae didnae lo on page 44

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
street. Then ma neebour's car coughed intae life an the brief magic(2020)

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