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Use in varieties of Scots

misfortune Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences87 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors8 7 1

Occurrences of misfortune in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ee cunts who sprinted hud the misfortune ae losin a trainer n trippin on page 20

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
eisure tae a great nobleman's misfortune, that had fashed him at the t on page 48

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
e finnd oot, Mary haes haen a misfortune an been gien hir jotters. Hin on page 142

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
flated disasters n moments of misfortune’, Nichols wid just be like
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
a wee bittie pit by agin the misfortune she wis shuir wis aye lurkin.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
an passed by ma misfortune
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Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ain storm ah’d ever hud the misfortune ay bein caught in, ponderin o
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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
re...an accident...some kinna misfortune." on page 38

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