Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'unlikely'

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Use in varieties of Scots

unlikely	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.9	22	18
ORK - Orkney	29.8	3	2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.2	4	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	12.6	2	2
GLA - Glasgow	10.9	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	9.4	7	7
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 unlikely in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
And am unlikely tae forget! on page 131

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
rmesan. In whit might seem an unlikely diversification, Emilia Romag
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
frozen grunnd, and appear in unlikely places, visible and vulnerabl
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"In the unlikely event of an emergency," said on page 42

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
tention, held the increasinly unlikely view that the Anti-christ hid
ld o said a few words, it wis unlikely he wid o been in the mood for
2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
t you mean by socialism. Aye, unlikely if were talking aboot the c (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
scrieve a poem on the topic o unlikely freenships. My effort wis a r on page 3
This maist unlikely pair. on page 6

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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e was a petty criminal but an unlikely murder victim. Small time bur
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
breardin frae some o the mair unlikely mooths. The ither day a body
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
un. He produced mair shot fae unlikely places ~ though no, tae her r
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
eel ready tae burst. It seems unlikely this doactur Hill boay is gon
1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
i him. If ah hud a boyfriend, unlikely as that might seem, and he di on page 1

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Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
your ain safety. Just in the unlikely event of there bein any bothe
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Unlikely hitches, on page 10

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ud led tae me gettin the most unlikely criminal record in Glasgow, t on page 46

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ge either, an sae it is maist unlikely that UFOs is fae ither warlds
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Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
n years, an the euro is hiely unlikely tae exist, hoo wull a UK on t
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
t so lamb in a slow cooker is unlikely... fish disnae dae weel cooke(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
a disaster. Wi his luck, he's unlikely tae get seriously ill an it w(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ected wae Donald Trump? Looks unlikely.(2020)