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The word 'marvellous'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
marvellousOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 4
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 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of marvellous in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
kes an dogs o ilka breed It's marvellous the things fowk fin But not a on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
back an fore. "You've been a marvellous host," she whispered, wavin a on page 61

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
Aa could gie ye a list o the marvellous innards o a combine, it's his on page 94

1 matches

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
ther .... Ah the mayhem o it, marvellous! Weel, at least when ye're yo
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Edrom Street. It’s really a marvellous development. If you would jus
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
Tannehill @Okeating This is a marvellous piece o scrievin. Thank ye fe(2020)
plies tae this utter tripe ur marvellous. https://t.co/W49q0rROtF(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
reek. Hae a braw day. Ye look marvellous ??????(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
to again spend time with this marvellous wummin and poet today. A real(2020)

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
guid freen @fikeane for this marvellous description of the speech and(2020)