A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

unfortunate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 5.3 4.8 0 0 21.9 0
Number of occurrences1510 3 0 0 2 0
Number of authors11 7 2 2

Occurrences of unfortunate in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
personal. Cos anyboady who's unfortunate enough tae pass through these on page 122
boay's broken English fur the unfortunate incident." on page 131
e silence together efter that unfortunate revelation. But no fur too lo on page 171

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
age this wis mebbes a wee bit unfortunate bit that wisnae jist the hail on page 76

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
pictures and centred roond an unfortunate incident that saw ma wee sist on page 29

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
tory o his fowk, that haed an unfortunate habit o wailin the side that on page 9

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McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ter wis Adie Weston. Adie wis unfortunate tae hae been ta’en oan by a
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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
s at risk ae being wan ae the unfortunate few which ower the years huv
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
old friend, Hsien. I have an unfortunate habit of getting too friendly
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Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
r ah um nuttin maire than his unfortunate passenger. These concerns are
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Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
at e Lizard as she spoke. (E unfortunate peedy Bill hed left off writa on page 118
ice o e Queen orderan off her unfortunate guests till execution-wance m on page 120

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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
her juice. Bit somethin maist unfortunate happened... she sterted tae p
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Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
s stiyin ahint tae execute th unfortunate gairdeners, whae ran tae Ahli on page 80

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The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
It's an unfortunate fact o' life that oo still ne
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