A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

comfortable Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.7 11.1 13.5 29.8 11.6 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences3822 9 3 2 1 1
Number of authors26 16 5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of comfortable in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
elic ae a desk. There's three comfortable chairs n three plastic wans b on page 52

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
is chair, like he wisnae very comfortable. The man oan the telly hud ji on page 1

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
d, haud me there. I even feel comfortable enough tae allow some blue no on page 3

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
nd loathin. Aldo makes himsel comfortable oan the cream leather couch o on page 63

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
w o them, and it wisnae awfie comfortable steyin on page 4

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Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
e chair. She didna look awfie comfortable. on page 42

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
A comfortable life wi a guid man and weans on page xix

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Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
a comfortable bahookie clad in a flooery pe on page 58

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
The meenister cam ower as gey comfortable an at hame wi the subjeck an
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Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
air Scots words. It's no awfy comfortable tho. Ah feel like a fake, lik
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Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
otside world. Ah don’t feel comfortable leaving her in the hoose by h
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
fur just a bit longer than is comfortable.
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Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
here she would feel more. . . comfortable in the coming weeks.’
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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
fur just a bit longer than is comfortable.
uth, to say the least. I feel comfortable dealing with you. Wouldn’t
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Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
arrivin and makkin theirsels comfortable. First cam the three dugs, Bl
w they haed aa made theirsels comfortable and war gleg waitin on him ta
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
usiret as a man. He felt mair comfortable wi menfowk, ayweys had. He’
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Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ms we in Scotland are awready comfortable wi), fowk seem tae hae forgot
aison d’etre an we’re gey comfortable haudin the SNP tae account on
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
a dismiss it an micht even be comfortable wi the result gin it were tae
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Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
lside, Allan fund it wis mair comfortable tae walk awa fae the licht. T
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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
e didna look jist fit ye'd ca comfortable. 'Um - er - yes, I see, I s on page 56

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
yke. Ah wis jist makkin masel comfortable fan Ah saa it. A body streitc on page 13

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ll drippan weet, cross, an no comfortable. on page 23
alkan ower ids heid. "No very comfortable for e Moosie," thoucht Alice; on page 64
sayan anythin, an didna look comfortable at all. on page 82
did id,) he didna look at all comfortable, an id wis certainly no becom on page 104

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Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
the giraffe.”Make yourself comfortable.”
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Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ger this time tae get intae a comfortable position. So he put his hand
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@FaeFoggie tweeted
@NatalieAHood Hope you're comfortable and being looked after. Virtu(2021) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
sheu wisna comfortable wae the questions, on page 22
yir truly comfortable, yir faalan apaert. on page 27

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@peediepuss tweeted
eel but my God they dinna luk comfortable(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ta get his boady snuggit up, comfortable enyoch anunder her oxter, wi on page 83
foo he did it), he didna look comfortable ava, an hit truly didna suit on page 110

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Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
e country” where we could be comfortable to get oan withoot them doon (2020) search twitter

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
y age that he was a lock mair comfortable dressed up in weemen's claes on page 44

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