A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'superb'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
superbOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9169
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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 superb in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ed agri-env initiatives, incl superb examples fae The Burren, and (2019)
refoot beach walk o 2014. How superb to feel da sand, sun and sea (2014)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
podcasts...they are honestly superb...Celts through and through.. (2022) twitter link

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
eNicol1 hell ye, that wudv bn superb. B awa tae dtn games, S oot w(2011)
@aimeeannenaylor superb ma luvly, superb x(2012)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
racking photo guys - park is superb (2020) twitter link
sLily @EastScotlandFA that is superb n the lily is a crackin wee g (2021) twitter link
@TalbotU19s @ProAmFootball superb (2020) twitter link
various football venues with superb viewing points - aye even th (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
It bene yaised fur a hantil o superb biggins, the maist weill-kent on page 12

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General Central

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
@Sayers33 Superb! Set that thinking to mair th(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
oy. His talent fer accents is superb.(2020)
imonfromharlow He wis amazin. Superb comic actor, but a great stre(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
eading through the variety of superb/funny/clear-minded responses (2022) twitter link

@changed_days tweeted
right now and Bassey has been superb in his last 2 starts! So gid (2021) twitter link