A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'excellent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
excellentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72818
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.9 7 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 excellent in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@nice2nettles Excellent! Monkey Ladder Vine Entada gi (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Shaetlan an compoonds a da richt, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2014) Shetland, blog
Dis a response o mine tae a excellent piece on Bella – http://bel
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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Id sounded an excellent plan, no doot, an awful neat on page 38

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ed-ends and washstand. All in excellent condition with original featu on page 71

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Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
ommunities thebenefits o this excellent resource tae help support the
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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
Virtue is its own reward?' An excellent dictum to see you through lif on page 107

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@SheltieDon Excellent. Can I get ene wi Beast(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
heese n wine maks for a maist excellent evening......as long as we av(2011)
@LouiseNicol1 That's maist excellent news. We some good there's ba(2011)
@aimeeannenaylor Maist excellent news!(2011)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
“Petrie” was an excellent baker (like Mither), her aipp
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
"The BBC has some excellent language education sites.....
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
tae b back at olivebank m8 - excellent game n a fantastic effort fro (2020) twitter link
k forward to this one and the excellent live streams the club offers (2020) twitter link
ly enjoyed the banter and the excellent live stream of the match m8 (2021) twitter link
big shout out to bdfm for an excellent sports show today - my new l (2020) twitter link
ere games and add to that the excellent coverage on bdfm - adds up t (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n transgenic wha haes his ain excellent reasons for no wintin tae hae
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Ah, excellent.’ he sais, takin it fae me
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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
tae the seat in the back. ‘Excellent. It’s always the best this
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Excellent. That’s just what I needed
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General Central

@FaetheRye tweeted
sewing job. Thimble required? Excellent book choice. Hope you feel ma (2022) twitter link
@camtacs Kenny is still an excellent orator. And much mair besides (2022) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
hting the Scots poetry of the excellent @paulmalgrati - as an appré(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
olmes. @Milliestopshate is an excellent actress. Ah hope they dae a s(2020)
rticular favourite character. Excellent actin.(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
Excellent stories fir senior learners. (2017) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
MacDougall gies excellent insicht intae the constructio on page 84

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