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The word 'punished'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
punishedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71211
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
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 punished in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
It's wild whit some fokk get punished fir on yundir. Also dey dinna(2021)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ll find her way oot. "A'll be punished for id noo, A suppose, by be- on page 20

1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
The day they wid be punished for deciplin, far noo the rot on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

Bundy Broch The Doric Min, (YouTube 2020) Doric - Brouch, poetry
sare to change my tongue and punished me each day
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
nor are we punished with a flood
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
whan Cornish bairns haes been punished at the scuil for daurin tae s
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
fousome behaviour hud tae be punished anq as she sat eatin her ming on page 50

1 matches

@annieones tweeted
trinators of English in 1707, punished oor weans fir speakin Gàidhl (2022) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
on him: “Gin thoo’s bein punished, larry man, than we’re aal
ry man, than we’re aal bein punished! At least thoo can see quhaar
2 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
wha fail tae perform will be punished. If ye hae been studyin regla on page 41

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
hit ah did, and noo ah'm bein punished fur writin in ma ain tongue. on page 45

1 matches

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