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Use in varieties of Scots

understatement Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of understatement in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s no widely acknowledged fur understatement, oor McDade.
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
t did ma teacher caw that? “Understatement”? “Lie-toats” or someth
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
that ah’m fucked is a huge understatement considerin the opinion ae the
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ion. Jings, thats shairly the understatement o the year.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
unt's description o ye wiz an understatement. on page 40

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e say Bert is delighted is an understatement ?? Jist need tae watch oot fe(2020) search twitter

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