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The word 'predictable'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
predictableOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.31413
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of predictable in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The whole thing's so predictable hid maks me want tae spew. on page 39

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Jist fit Ah said. Ye're so predictable - Ah think Ah'd dee o shock on page 6

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
yir like, we ken yir type - predictable, a stereotype, nae an origina (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
soondin o "ch" is a lot mair predictable than ye micht expeck:
1 matches

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
hunners bi us. An we're no as predictable as the papers micht say. Ah'v
1 matches

West Central

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
when I read some bloggers’ predictable comments aboot this in The He
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
predictable, precarious, on page 98

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e wondert whether he kent foo predictable he wis. Techies tendit tae ga
in her bahoochie. He wis that predictable. She lat oot a theatrical squ
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
be expected. He’s sportin a predictable black French connection track
1 matches

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
vin passages are gey wersh an predictable, lik 'shapely bodies', 'vivid on page 90

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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
sum fowk aboot hoo dreich an predictable this election wis gaein tae b
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South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
the fock gaed, wis siccar an predictable. Verra few fock wuid bei i re
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
we're aw far too predictable, less indiveedual; on page 129

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