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The word 'forlorn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
forlornOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.487
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 forlorn in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Lonely tulip aal forlorn on page 63

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Doric Gruffalo's Bairn, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1785300691) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
met him," the Gruffalo said, forlorn, on page 1

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
eth southgate he always hus a forlorn look oan his face - jist lik (2021) twitter link

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
e the maths lesson. He looked forlorn an Tam cud amaist feel sorry on page 43

1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
ion would take us beyond war. Forlorn hope. Still believe #Scottish (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
But noo, how sad forlorn on page 7
Noo shunned, alone, forlorn on page 34

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
the bench up the brae, luckin forlorn doon the glen where the train on page 79

1 matches

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