A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

unnatural Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences53 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of unnatural in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
at fearsome nicht ye wuid see unnatural fires burnin aw ower the cast on page 117

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
side ay his face; horrific an unnatural an the boay’s goat his haun
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
tae producin loud and annoyin unnatural soonds again. Which is a sure
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
c tae the veesitin coroner….unnatural daiths bein registered as cau
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
placenames Nah that soond gey unnatural an orra Ah jaloose(2020) search twitter