A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wonderful Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.1 10.8 22.6 0 23.2 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences4221 15 0 4 1 1
Number of authors22 12 6 2 1 1

Occurrences of wonderful in Corpus

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Central

Lang, Charles nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
Blackmail is a wonderful thing. Dotty is usin it tae t on page 88

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Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
dy is starin right enough but Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartn on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
do the Great done, that is so wonderful?" on page 70
ely Miss Robertson fur such a wonderful introduction" he said. A comm on page 190

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
It's a Wonderful Life is playin. Ma pal's sist on page 76
It's a Wonderful Life on page 83
Granny wis It's a Wonderful Life. She wis proud o hur sma on page 87

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
been recently informed by the wonderful lassy that helps me that thro
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McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
There are wonderful ways that ideas, feelings and
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
in the braidsheet Strange and Wonderful Apparitions that on 19 Mairch
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McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
lot tae the kindness o' this wonderful, wee woman.
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
oo. In celebration ae thedays wonderful news ah’ve prepared us baco
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@g_hibby tweeted
w Year tae ye Raiph... Have a wonderful time buddy... I do miss Germa (2022) twitter link
a bit o' blue sky oot there.. Wonderful.. ??.. I'm away tae acknowled (2022) twitter link

@IshbelMcF tweeted
Day 238. The haar. The wonderful haar. #edinburgh #northbridge(2016) search twitter

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
Well done. Ye are aw simply wonderful. It's a joy tae work alongsid(2018) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
cal moment when snow falls - wonderful comments on this lol (2021) twitter link
olytonWildlife @wildeastdevon wonderful footage guys (2020) twitter link
ed our royal family n awe the wonderful work they do fgs (2020) twitter link
n the planning application - wonderful news lol (2021) twitter link
ent fitbaw player tino was - wonderful finish (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
usion wi the shaddas. "What a wonderful transfiguration!" on page 61

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
a thing - aa Ah can hear is 'Wonderful! Amazing! Fabulous!', An aabo on page 31
ting is amazing - absolutely wonderful! Fenella really is the queen on page 32

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
an, as weel she micht, what a wonderful dream id hed been. on page 119
nkan o peedy Alice an all her wonderful Adventures, till she too bega on page 120

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Wilson, Heidi and Isla Then and noo, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Keith, prose
Wis it a that great and wonderful,
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
hud me greeting like a bairn, wonderful film. xx(2015) search twitter
Thank you Angela for wonderful #review of my part #Doric nov(2018) search twitter

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@NatalieAHood Wonderful. Looks like a photie o ma bac(2019) search twitter
dyM_McManus I bumped into the wonderful Michelle McManus fan I wis on(2019) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
kets. Glesga King Theatre was wonderful on Sunday, but, seeing the ma (2022) twitter link
kets. Glesga King Theatre was wonderful on Sunday, but, seeing the ma (2022) twitter link
ntable, gless in hand and the wonderful @KrisDrever ‘Where the World (2021) twitter link
unreal expectations and fit a wonderful job Mcinnes has done. the run (2021) twitter link
the same league as this loon. Wonderful fitba player https://t.co/7f2 (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
land Folk Festival today - a wonderful event in so many ways. Thankf(2020) search twitter
A wonderful talk fae Dr Mark Bolton, my s(2019) search twitter
feless. A closer look reveals wonderful peerie plants. http://t.co/Si(2014) search twitter

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
nt babies!! Daves done such a wonderful job o prickin dem aa oot. Dis (2020) twitter link

Southern

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
A hink it's wonderful how the Salmon find their way
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Ulster

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
you! I’m so excited by this wonderful new project that will bring t (2020) twitter link