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The word 'entertained'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
entertainedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 entertained in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
lang wikks tae keep the geets entertained! #Schoolsout https://t.co/ph3(2019)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
agree min, I struggle tae get entertained by English fitba. But then I (2023) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Your music mair than entertained us,
1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
t wumman. The kind endlesslie entertained by new knowledge. The kind o
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
oor Granny and Granda kept me entertained. Mammy wis still grievin fur on page 7

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Granny and Granda kept me entertained. Ah cycled tae their hoose ev on page 37

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
journey. She kept me and Kate entertained. She'd been tae Blackpool doz on page 31

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