A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'unfamiliar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unfamiliarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
ORK - Orkney
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 4
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 unfamiliar in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
heard his ain voice, sharp an unfamiliar like, an sag the hurt look aa on page 90

1 matches

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
And I’ll spik awa tae these unfamiliar fowk fae here and there, wi t
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
at Mcinnes really acted in an unfamiliar wye - his instincts wid norm (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
is e'en less blate ti find an unfamiliar hostelry weill, that's fine i on page 70

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
air. Ah'm greeted wae loadsae unfamiliar pusses and aboot an equal num on page 171

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
re tae find oot what the mair unfamiliar Patois words mean. Local is i
talk aboot anythin! It looks unfamiliar written doon in black an whit
2 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
€™d blink in confusion at the unfamiliar ceilin fur a few moments, lik
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
see a grey Berghaus among the unfamiliar trackies. That wee fuckin sic on page 41

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ot tae a balcony; views ay an unfamiliar cityscape beyond revealed int
1 matches

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