A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

dreadful Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.1 3.2 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences52 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of dreadful in Corpus

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Central

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
The dreadful news, finally broke,
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
as bricht as he thinks he is. Dreadful man.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
it: "explanations take such a dreadful time." on page 99

1 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
hin but a spain win. At wiz a dreadful game o fitba(2013) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I've had a dreadful gluff at da Mainlands coonter(2013) search twitter