A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

surprising Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.6 0 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences75 0 1 1 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of surprising in Corpus

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Central

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
of big auld Evan Evans n his surprising offence at offhandedly being
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Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
cause thurr half cut. It wiz surprising that the booncers havnae just
they wurr that daft it wid be surprising if they could tell their erse
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Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
owt like that. An oddball. No surprising considering what we’d had t
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
MusselburghAth @JakeMoyes1108 surprising collapse fae the burra second (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
the book wae some o hids most surprising, progressive, and pleasing mo on page 1

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
n dem tae be dat big. Hit’s surprising hoo weel some o dem hiv sproo
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