Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'embarrassing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

embarrassing	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.6	12	8
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	13.3	3	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	7.7	3	2
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	6.6	5	4
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 embarrassing in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
@jay_mfc Its getting embarrassing and were getting a wee bit (2020) twitter link
Jack @BBCSportsound Really is embarrassing at times, need tae get Stuart (2020) twitter link
pile on fae the likes o you. Embarrassing (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
but knew fleein would be more embarrassing. When ah stood up in front of on page 7

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ments about them were not and embarrassing and out of order - your stat (2021) twitter link
sFootie @WickAcademyFC and ur embarrassing reply lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

@annieones tweeted
animals. Should he be there, embarrassing UK ???? ?? (2021) twitter link

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
her mouth. "Oh Monsieur, how embarrassing." on page 3

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
Stop talking. Your accent is embarrassing. You are putting me off my ex on page 4

1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
I’m a total embarrassment, embarrassing him like that. He knocks uz o
1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
ate, we're that bad. 25pts is embarrassing, could be double that come se(2017)
ist offers him another trial? embarrassing(2014)