A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'fearful'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fearfulOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fearful in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Oh, aye. Ah'm fearful plaised thoo cam. on page 5
a furnished flat. The rent is fearful high on page 10
d and spotty and hid's lukkan fearful hot. on page 60
A-ha. Yaas. Oh, fearful fine. A-ha. on page 79

4 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
y and port fae The Reel. Hids fearful grand tae see hur back this w on page 86

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ung white males indignant and fearful of diversity, looking for cer (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
God exists an wants ye tae be fearful ay him; tae bend tae his will on page 10

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
God exists an wants ye tae be fearful ay him; tae bend tae his will
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Intae tha fearful stoor o daith Ye gar me doonw on page 65

1 matches

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