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The word 'screaming'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
screamingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus31010
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 screaming in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
mings family.....wi should be screaming class war tae this bollocks h (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
ae the pitch, hoping tae win, screaming "cmon lads" as loud as ah cou
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e say. He wis well alight and screaming when we left him. We had tae
1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
re wiz some court case. Evans screaming inflated shite at Nichols, Ni
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
and some auld drunk jakey is screaming at ye in a pub that yir playi on page 3

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
assie. He used to slag me fur screaming when he did it tae me. Well t on page 76

1 matches

General Central

MacGregor, Rose Lallans 102 - The Big C Roller Coaster, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
e spew fae the bowels o hell, screaming tae God, tae end yer tribulat on page 69

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
air was electric. People were screaming, cars honking, sirens wailing
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
In tears but happy tears and screaming yes till I pass oot.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Queen's voice in th distanee, screaming blue murder. She hae already on page 84

1 matches

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