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The word 'funniest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
funniestOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
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 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 funniest in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
Yur one of the funniest folk a kane. Yi niver fail ta
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
If onyeen funcies seein I funniest fermer in i wurld up in Inver(2019)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
nd drag me oot...possibly the funniest thing ahv ever been involved (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
is lying behind a wall is the funniest thing av ever seen in fitbaw (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
is as if she'd jist heard the funniest hing that hus ever been said on page 36

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
lue - even if Granny wis the funniest in real life. Ah showed a fri on page 85

1 matches

@LowEndJardo tweeted
sician until everyone had the funniest qoute about his failed marria (2021) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
Whit wis the funniest thing yer auld Nana ever said(2020)

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