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The word 'embarrassment'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
embarrassmentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42418
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 25.4 10 5
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 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 embarrassment in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
that ye'r an embarrassment, on page 38

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
wummnin's turnt fae fear tae embarrassment just afore the heidlichts cam on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae Morningside yuv became an embarrassment tae me and everyboady else." on page 135

2 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
The ugly sister faintit wi embarrassment but it wis aaricht cause she on page 89

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
n Scots athoot ony creenge or embarrassment an hou sic a ferlie cuid be b
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
s an be prood o it athoot ony embarrassment. Oor hamelt Scots speakers is
1 matches

Lamb, Darcie T in the Park, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
steamin oot their nut. Hefty embarrassment!
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
embarrassment at the want o a hangman afore
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
muckle disgrace an rid-faced embarrassment. He speirt an aw wha'd a thoc
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
weel as English an athoot ony embarrassment, then there mair chance that
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
shoud feel yon wey - an his embarrassment at the adulatioun o worshippe
1 matches

@annieones tweeted
13 @STVNews Seriously,what an embarrassment Boris is,does no-one check hi (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ds an ye cin hear their utter embarrassment in the fack that they cannae on page 64

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
professional an’ cause nae embarrassment tae the lass, A quickly turne
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
her face, burnin wi anger an embarrassment, agin the cool waa.
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
"You're an embarrassment,' she says. on page 16

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ption ay Mary, who flushes in embarrassment. ‘Right, ah’m gaun tae ge
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Face up tae the embarrassment
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ae Tesco. Ma face crumples in embarrassment before ah straighten it, pret on page 85

1 matches

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

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
i their ain language, wi nae embarrassment, wi nae sel-consciousness abo
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ei frae onie Scot’s Creinge embarrassment, sic is the haunt o ae gey wh
Creinge” embarrassment i the psyche o Mary or Nellie
2 matches

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