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The word 'unchancy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unchancyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51810
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 6
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 unchancy in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
t a littlin try tae sclimm an unchancy place like this."
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
orpheme: mischancy, mischief, unchancy,
1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
rowed that there wis somethin unchancy in thon kirkyaird an he didna
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
had suddenly become saft and unchancy. on page 22
atilda said. 'But she's verra unchancy. Bein at this schuil is like on page 112
after her voice wis, the mair unchancy it wis, but Nigel never kent on page 140
el awa fae it as if it wis an unchancy thing. Then slowly she lifted on page 168

5 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
An unchancy hobbles, but howp hae ah nane on page 36

1 matches

General Central

Donaldson, Gordon Lallans 90 - Echty-Echt, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
But Ah hadnae. Somethin unchancy had happened, tho nane o the on page 37

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
t jist lately he'd fawen upon unchancy tides. He'd been gey disherte on page 6

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Ilk airt unchancy, fithauds sair tae win on page 25

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
n mak life for ither speishie unchancy.
Mairs haes aye been an unchancy warld for human progs wi mony
actit tae souk in mony o the unchancy rocks that micht'a heidit ram
3 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
smeddum o rural speak, no the unchancy virr o the urban patter. Bait
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
rs sin oor auntie thocht them unchancy contraptions. No lang afore,
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
nent hou we feed oorsels. The unchancy prospect o gaein ‘ower a cl
1 matches

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