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The word 'tortured'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
torturedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71913
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 3
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of tortured in Corpus

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Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Scalloway Castle, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, poetry
As dey were tortured as witches
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
addas war like imsel: peer an tortured sowls, bound te the Earth bi on page 77

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
oot te chynge - efter aa the tortured years o wytin an winnerin, Ah on page 45

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
riftwid in weird shapes as if tortured Devil’s imps in the depths
1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
/ wha was pit in the jile and tortured, / And nailed tae a widden cr
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
hole’ far aa thon fowk were tortured an some o them suffocated ti
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
They niver tortured you.
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
t's the reid threid oot o the tortured, modular labyrinth o oor Engl
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
g in ma book 'n [I'm quiet 'n tortured 'n that. But alas she's plann on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Buryin his tortured brou in his clasped hauns, he on page 29

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Comes the tortured eternal refrain. on page 17

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
intellectuals wis roondit up, tortured an murdered by Pinochet’s f
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
If caught ye cud be fined, or tortured, or even shot…. Quite a few
fur it aifter the way he’d tortured as mony he believed wur Coven

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
t. If caught ye cud be fined, tortured, jailed, sent abroad as a sla

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
. Mony a body wis imprisoned, tortured, made a slave, executed. Thin

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
, some wur imprisoned, ithers tortured, some wur fined, some wur sen

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
tellt them tae git lost, wis tortured then spent the nixt few years

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
m ower tae tha jailers tae be tortured til he pyed bak aa he owed. T on page 9

1 matches

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