A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'bearable'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bearableOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 bearable in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
o a website a peerie bit mair bearable!(2021)
les at aa! I fin Twitter mair bearable fae I started writin tweets i(2021)

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
a position that the pain wiz bearable. He lay still and daurna move
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
y traivelt alang it, the mair bearable it wuid become, till the map on page 8

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
rek’s patter starts soundin bearable. Ah tell him how U2 ur pish a
1 matches

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