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The word 'petrified'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
petrifiedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.488
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 3
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 petrified in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
We war faced wi a tiny little petrified beastie that couldna even sta
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
jist need tae gaze intae his petrified eyes tae ken this. But ah ret
1 matches

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
... an plonk itsel doon at ma petrified feet. An she wis bowfin. Soor on page 11

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
dum tae say naw. Ah wis still petrified fae her. She could still hurt on page 195

1 matches

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
As he entert in, he wis petrified. He wis oan his ain.
1 matches

Dundee

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
twa pylons. Ah wis absolutely petrified but Mr Baxter wis incredibly
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
OOKIN AT?’ he shouts at the petrified lookin cunts who scramble oer
1 matches

General Central

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
j. Ah couldnay sit doon. Been petrified ivvir since. ??????(2020)