A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sucked'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
suckedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sucked in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
Ye'r startin tae be sucked in on page 35

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
an’ ah wisnae aboot tae git sucked intae nae Eastern religion fo
1 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
It’s easy tae get sucked intae gossip an hearsay wen i
1 matches

General Central

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
. That's how I’m no getting sucked intae conversation on it, no
y’re goading uz. Dinnae get sucked in just coz yi want tae prove
2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
An it sucked oot their brains
1 matches

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