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The word 'interestan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
interestanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.893
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 175.8 5 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 interestan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Interestan artefacts appeal tae man and on page 37
re comes an unkan larry wi an interestan load - on page 65

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Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
ertainly moved on. Hid wid be interestan tae ken more aboot the age o

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
Stewart, that is interestan - ivvry day’s a scheul day

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ill her lips. "A ken somethin interestan is sure till happen," she sad on page 32
arch Hare will be much e most interestan, an perhaps as iss is May id on page 62
sayan, "Thank e, Sir, for yer interestan story," but she couldna help on page 92
"Thank ee, id's a awful interestan dance till watch," sade Alice on page 98

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