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The word 'unbelievable'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unbelievableOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 unbelievable in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@apashley WOW. Dats unbelievable (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fair dumfoonert it his pal's unbelievable announcement. "Ye've mair nee on page 47

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ire 359 days tae Christmas – unbelievable! Happy New Year a’body, lang(2015)

General Northern

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
ity of Aiberdeen fit tae dee. Unbelievable! (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
fu, progressive kintrae seems unbelievable tae me nou, but there ye are.
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
wi the fairies that it's pure unbelievable. Nae mither or faither is gon on page 111

1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
It's completely unbelievable that Donna wis sae easily per(2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
GeorgeFoulkes @NicolaSturgeon Unbelievable tweet... nonsensical nonsense (2022) twitter link