Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'unexpected'

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Use in varieties of Scots

unexpected	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.8	16	13
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	17.4	3	3
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	12.2	5	4
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	18.6	3	2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	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 unexpected in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid wisna unexpected - let that be understood. on page 33

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
e ava. So if you come apon an unexpected steer or clatch she might aes
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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
An unexpected treat while oot walkin da dog(2017)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
ep a few years ago. It was so unexpected - I burst into tears when I (2018) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ying Broon last night and nae unexpected at some point but Barron had (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
The unasked-for and unexpected kindlinesses, on page 58

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
his leg oantae the table, an unexpected move that jist aboot sends th on page 131

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Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
as a “double take”. This unexpected intervention tuik the wind oo
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rious but in this case - not unexpected lol (2020) twitter link
rier not good guys - but not unexpected alas (2020) twitter link

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
n he did so! Then somethin so unexpected happened I shouted ma heid af
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
the telly tae explode, or an unexpected power cut tae happen. Ah deci on page 34
id come insteed though wis an unexpected opportunity. Ma chance, or so on page 35

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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ckly slams shut behind me. An unexpected reminder ae ma days spent at
1 matches

General Central

Macdonald, Ileene Fit’s it aa aboot?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
its future. ‘A radical and unexpected shift in Scots has taken plac
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@jax6754 tweeted
r from you today, and totally unexpected, and brought a wee smile tae (2014)