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The word 'aggressive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aggressiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3117
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 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)

Occurrences of aggressive in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
aggressive, he looked Jonsar up an doon,
1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
shove abdy aboot, they're so aggressive!(2012)

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ty firever eez heard, make ye aggressive, mental. Ma juist says it's u on page 3

3 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
€˜The cancer has spread at an aggressive rate Mr. Pearce. It has reach
1 matches

General Central

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
e voters were comin across as aggressive an a potential threat tae Na
spel her fear o Aye voters as aggressive an anti-English. Whiles there
2 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
Scottish cringe’ – the ‘aggressive’ side o ‘passive-aggressi
’ side o ‘passive-aggressive’ (creengin-crabbit?).
2 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
gov You're becoming less tory aggressive, I'm starting tae think you s(2020)

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