A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'stressed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stressedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.43811
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 168.6 29 2
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 10.5 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 10.2 2 2
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stressed in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
stressed wae a finger-jab tae the pape on page 7

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
tion. Vowels can be "strong" (stressed) or "waik" (unstressed). Shae on page 23
mair prominent syllable is a stressed een (noo an agein caaed "stro on page 29
a unstressed bi (/bɪ/) an da stressed by (/baɪ/), as in: on page 30
ae be twa forms, da strong or stressed bî, bī, by, bij, bei, and d on page 31
/ma:k/, taak /ta:k/. Lang or stressed consonants is shaan wi a doob on page 32
Also on pages 38, 58, 78, 80
28 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
excuse but he’s been braaly stressed oot we his wark enenoo. He’s (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
e wark ower lang oors an were stressed acause o it. But, they seem t
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
days ae insomnia and bein sae stressed that ah could barely digest a on page 121

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
hir Social Security. You look stressed, she said. Aye well, ah said, on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
wi a tray ae empties, lookin stressed oot thur box. Servin punters on page 29

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
. Dae ye think ah’d be that stressed oot oer that? That wis just t
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
it is late and I am tired and stressed so my theology may be a bitti(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
? Dis he ken he's making fowk stressed and anxious and drivin' fowk (2021)