A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'swallowed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
swallowedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of swallowed in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
d at me wi great surprise and swallowed wance or twice. on page 20
I swallowed a moothfil and bockid. Hoo co on page 31

3 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
So she swallowed wan o e cakes, an wis delicht on page 38

1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
uld half-rotten bogie pairtlt swallowed in aneath a clump o rowans, a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
he crossbow, Harry jist aboot swallowed the sweaty sock we had gagged
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Allan swallowed the slavers that hid rushed i
1 matches

General Central

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
... He took a deep breath and swallowed the big stane in his thrapple on page 64

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
r the horizon, the letter box swallowed up my postcard. . . will you on page 37

1 matches

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