A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

misfortunate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 2.1 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences54 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of misfortunate in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Thochts o Speakin Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2001) Central, prose
t doon thair nebs at the orra misfortunate sowel they whiles heard uisin
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
en joukit, bit it has a wheen misfortunate upcomes, as muckle for a Stau
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
It is misfortunate that nae muckle scrievit mate
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
oons. Wis thare ony o us that misfortunate that we didnae aye leuk forri
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hoose, bot it wur maist misfortunate trigidy n’, fur him an his
1 matches

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