A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

unlikely Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 7.7 6 29.8 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2215 4 3 0 0 0
Number of authors18 13 3 2

Occurrences of unlikely in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
scrieve a poem on the topic o unlikely freenships. My effort wis a r on page 3
This maist unlikely pair. on page 6

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Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Unlikely hitches, on page 10

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Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
i him. If ah hud a boyfriend, unlikely as that might seem, and he di on page 1

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ud led tae me gettin the most unlikely criminal record in Glasgow, t on page 46

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ge either, an sae it is maist unlikely that UFOs is fae ither warlds
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Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
your ain safety. Just in the unlikely event of there bein any bothe
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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e was a petty criminal but an unlikely murder victim. Small time bur
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
un. He produced mair shot fae unlikely places ~ though no, tae her r
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Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
n years, an the euro is hiely unlikely tae exist, hoo wull a UK on t
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
breardin frae some o the mair unlikely mooths. The ither day a body
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
eel ready tae burst. It seems unlikely this doactur Hill boay is gon
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
t so lamb in a slow cooker is unlikely... fish disnae dae weel cooke(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
a disaster. Wi his luck, he's unlikely tae get seriously ill an it w(2020) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ected wae Donald Trump? Looks unlikely.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"In the unlikely event of an emergency," said on page 42

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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
tention, held the increasinly unlikely view that the Anti-christ hid
ld o said a few words, it wis unlikely he wid o been in the mood for
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@72redz1903 tweeted
t you mean by socialism. Aye, unlikely if we’re talking aboot the c (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
And am unlikely tae forget! on page 131

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Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
rmesan. In whit might seem an unlikely diversification, Emilia Romag
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Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
frozen grunnd, and appear in unlikely places, visible and vulnerabl
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