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The word 'ordinary'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ordinaryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.24330
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.7 7 5
WCE - West Central 23 5 3
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 18.6 14 9
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 ordinary in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
nything wid ever happen in an ordinary wye ageen. on page 106

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Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
da corridor, a neatly dressed ordinary young man. I felt seek as I s on page 58

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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
hink id so awful much oot o e ordinary till hear e Rabbit say till i on page 7

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
l Charlie cam roon - jist an ordinary loon on page 15

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
id found a pistol, and nae an ordinary pistol. This wiz a pistol des
a bullets in it but again nae ordinary bullets like ye’d expect. O
2 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
For ordinary lads like you an' me on page 11

1 matches

General Northern

Carney, Don Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric, prose
cud hiv bin written aboot the ordinary folk that bide aside ye. They on page 5

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@72redz1903 tweeted
can you play Terry Callier ‘Ordinary Joe’ ?? (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ORDINARY CRIMINALS on page 115
clear as water. Aye, we're aw ordinary criminals in this place that' on page 123

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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
ompared wi grannie's it's gey ordinary stuff
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Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
les. So, while in the past an ordinary Jamaican might hae laughed at
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
guages, or as adults, speaks "ordinary" in the hoose an "polite" in
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
the Sunday Post speakin juist ordinary like the rest o the bairns. I
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
astScotlandFA certainly extra ordinary times that nobody in football (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Plain, ordinary breid an butter work. on page 207

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Plain, ordinary breid an butter work. on page 11

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Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
train comin. The trust o the ordinary voter is a line o credit that
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
r. The man in the street. The ordinary boy. An then they couldnae fi
s hus become an issue fer the ordinary man. Even fer Oor Wullie. Ah
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
that stories refleck whit the ordinary fowk think - that's hou they on page 10
pleasures tae be haud there. Ordinary fowk kennt better than get ow on page 118

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Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Naethin sae repairable or ordinary as mere on page 57

2 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
at. They were dead nice, dead ordinary, gied me a cuppa tea, showed
lama a miracle isnae oot the ordinary. Though, frankly, ah don't th
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
iliarity ah spoke aboot, just ordinary folk huvin the craic, the wai
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
its lang lang shanks and its ordinary wee body awa up on tap. It lo on page 82
am oot and watch us chynge an ordinary chookie intae a braw big muck on page 85

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
puir an ordinary, an apon his grave on page 29

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
eatment from the speak of the ordinary people in this land." A bodie on page 121

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McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
n the national interest, were ordinary fowk, bit by begrudged bit, a
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ndent state o mind is growin. Ordinary fowk are beginnin tae get act
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Facebook link ( 2021) Central
up wi an army made up o 4000 ordinary men wi nae real military expe

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
sion. It wis also illegal fur ordinary folk tae go an hear a sermon

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
orth mentionin. They wur also ordinary men nae professional sodjers.

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
struggle atween government an ordinary folk.

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
alist America fechtin for the ordinary Joe an Agnes o the warld, I s(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
time & time again. Many many ordinary folk like us could well gan B (2022) twitter link
oor side in 2014, but lots o ordinary folk like me & you chose fear (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
how organisations, as weel as ordinary folk, value Scots (or no), ‘ (2019) twitter link

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
Thur wus naethin oot o the ordinary aboot that, an Alice didnae t on page 7

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