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Use in varieties of Scots

awful Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words49.7 2.5 211.7 69.6 17.4 0 22.1
Number of occurrences1615 141 7 3 0 5
Number of authors20 5 9 2 3 1

Occurrences of awful in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
id the deed, she said. That's awful, said Harpreet. Aye, ah said. on page 58

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
seem like yourself. You were awful quiet in R.E. this afternoon. on page 50

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Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
l it for a million. It looked awful, but ma sister said she’d p
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Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
e the hospital wi him. Ah’m awful sorry hen, ah don’t know ho
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
And before ah ken it this God awful eery silence starts tae conta
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Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Conrad: Ah feel awful. Ower moany late nichts. on page 40

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Alice wis beginnan till get awful tired o sittan eeside her sis on page 7
e found hersel fallan doon an awful deep well. on page 8
top o e hoose !" (Wheech wis awful leckly true.) on page 9
lkan again. "Dinah'll miss me awful much e nicht, A think!" (Dina on page 10
ucht poor Alice, "id wid be o awful peedy use withoot ma shoulder on page 11
Also on pages 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31, 33, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 57, 59, 60, 64, 65, 67, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 96, 98, 99, 100, 105, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 114, 115, 120
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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
t. "Michty me, Dod, that's an awful hoast you have!" said MacTavi on page 107

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McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
stairs tae ma bed. Wullie wis awful thochtie an gaid fite hissel,
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Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and the last months hid been awful as the dementia teen a hud o
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@72redz1903 tweeted
recruitment fae Glass , jist awful mix o players. (2022) twitter link
l. Cove get fit 600 max in an awful stadium wi nae atmosphere. Co (2022) twitter link
n Longstaff, but, he has been awful in the games had with the Don (2021) twitter link
n English Premiership, fuckin awful. Secret is tae be collectivel (2020) twitter link

@daleser23 tweeted
be a decent game ina. Benzema awful inite ina. Recovered fae week(2013) search twitter
@RossAndrew7 kane. Sum awful defending fae benfica like(2013) search twitter
lin41091 aye. Watchin fitba. #awful(2013) search twitter
@MikeyForbes1 haha aye awful like(2014) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
@ScottishFA just awful to watch. Tactics all wrong. (2016) search twitter

@glenlivetloon tweeted
ledy redd up!' too... what an awful mess!(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thir's no doot hids an awful grand thing on page 109
Hids awful grand tae hae Orcadian on page 125
Tae this awful bruck an gobbledegook. on page 135

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@peediepuss tweeted
@TheEliselise Awful, horrendous, but better found (2021) twitter link
flett @MoiraFin So sorry min. Awful, just awful.(2020) search twitter
@DonegalDrift That is most awful fine, beuy!(2020) search twitter

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
e howked oot, new - fangled, awful shrill.) on page 18

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Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Why do you people wear these awful Fair Isle yokes? They make yo on page 13

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@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@drl Jesus. Dats awful (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Bot childer carred wi awful faer, on page 18
Yer fashion flits sae awful soon, on page 19
Truth wull blush wi awful faer on page 26
It chargeth forth thein awful clout, on page 48
Ir ein succumb til awful cowld on page 49

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