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The word 'abusive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
abusiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.488
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of abusive in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
is Spanish for friend and non abusive..I think ?????? (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
bield citizens an groups agin abusive discrimination on racial, sex
1 matches

West Central

Cunningham, Liam Tam, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Bellshill, prose
e ir, almost like a wiz in an abusive relationship the wiy thit a w
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
he the verra defineetion o an abusive marriage. on page 102

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
an’ bein’, in their eyes, abusive tae them. A had jist made mas
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
l information on FB then send abusive messages tae folk. He's clear(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
et warning the pleb to not be abusive/offensive or any other such t (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
orld. I pity you in a drunken abusive fatherly manner.(2017)