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The word 'twisted'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
twistedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.72520
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 4
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of twisted in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Peedie twisted trees graow near on page 56
dry, Pat pulld hid straeyt an twisted hid intae whut wid mibbee be on page 99

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Puld an twisted intae shape on page 97

1 matches

Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ed tae mak bands, wrapped and twisted on page 95

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ean throw the skin, the reyns twisted roon her neck. The cairt wis
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ye afore her hands hid gotten twisted wi age. That forenicht she se
1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
a horse and a bull wi muckle twisted horns, and nae a hale body at on page 40
the middle o it aa, his heid twisted richt back. A sair fecht! on page 41

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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
twisted his heid roon aboot near stan
fer foo o steens an, twisted an bent the ridgers oot o sha
2 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
stiff an sticks, his lips aw twisted like an auld horse snickerin. on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
adgies like me. Dinnae git it twisted though. Ah've been fucked mai on page 29

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Twisted in ma hert like steel.
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
at isnae filtered through the twisted kaleidoscope o mainstream med
1 matches

West Central

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
d like wolves and thorns that twisted roon a risin sun, their desig
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Life is a twisted dance, for God’s sake take
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lation?” Bill suggestit. “Twisted practical joke? Bit of both?
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s great gnarled antlers staun twisted an proud, the vegetation that
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ry tae get at me, their faces twisted wae rage but he puts his airm
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
spinal chord hid been pu'd an twisted lik an elastic band. on page 40
s spinal chord wis noo doubly twisted an his mooth wis dry. He mana on page 42

2 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
see a lassie as a pawn in yer twisted fuckin game, on page 34

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
ma true-tongues twisted, rackit on page 52

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
, really. Pete grabbed me and twisted ma arm and said if Aunty Mari
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
he sand as dulse an daberlack twisted aroon ma toes. Ah douked ma f
1 matches

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