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Use in varieties of Scots

mischievous Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 1.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of mischievous in Corpus

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Central

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
they are weel-kennt fer bein mischievous if no doonricht dangerous. So on page 29

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Ye ken yoursel he is a wild, mischievous callant, and thinks nae mair
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
him. He stuid up wi her. On a mischievous nory, he bent tae gie her a c
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@LairnScots tweeted
bbish heap, a chaotic mess, a mischievous person like a wee besom? How (2019) twitter link

Doric

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
he roons an substanced mony a mischievous thocht amang us when I wis kn
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Shü smiled, an I saa da mischievous look at I mindit sae weel com on page 50

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