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The word 'unexpeckit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unexpeckitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 unexpeckit in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Unexpeckit...romuntic...aat's the new me on page 18
in tremble an his een full wi unexpeckit tears. on page 90
An syne an unexpeckit feelin o optimism rose inside on page 96

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Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
wye up, it brocht me till an unexpeckit burn amang the bracken at e b on page 56

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ts some ither difficulties in unexpeckit weys, like lattin folk see th
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
r guid exemplars o Scots frae unexpeckit mooths or e'en frae onie ithe
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
en us aw in caller an aiblins unexpeckit airts, an forby, eidentlie ca on page 6

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
arteecular lines tae be sung, unexpeckit unnerstaunin o the oral pratt on page 69

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Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ard the Greens micht cause an unexpeckit upset i Holyrood nixt year. S
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
USA haes been laid bare wi an unexpeckit starkness, an the sicht gies
1 matches

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