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The word 'unreal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unrealOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 unreal in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
@TykitFleine Unreal good ma dood!!! ???? (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ist a memory tae the lave, as unreal as the yalla frangipani the i
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
in at the side o my landy wiz unreal an fin I got hame I checked o
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
s, and this climate... it’s unreal,’
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
usual keich aboot Dons’ fans unreal expectations and fit a wonder (2021) twitter link
@DoricSkateboard Fuckin unreal, I think the camera catches t (2020) twitter link

@glenlivetloon tweeted
@MhairiBlack Unreal what folks say about women in(2019)

General Central

Grace, Reyzl Eemis Stane 2 - Late Efternuin in the Hermitage, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, poetry
leuks a bittock unreal, as tho colour on page 6

1 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
Unreal patter aff that posh dick Jam (2018) twitter link
Unreal class attention to detail aff (2018) twitter link

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