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The word 'attractive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
attractiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11712
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of attractive in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@stevenwylie19 It might be attractive to the smaller types of bees (2020)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ent at... weel, it's nae affa attractive, like." on page 37

1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
.. Glesca ... hairy. Am Ah no attractive tae ye fin Ah'm normal? on page 40

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e gittin shot ae him isnae as attractive as it yince wis. Which is why on page 155

1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
soul, a daeless daydream mair attractive than the freedom that it drea
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ie o centralised pouer is aye attractive tae politeecians. on page 30
the haill gig economy is affy attractive tae the capitalist. It's a we on page 91
in wind an wave pouer is affy attractive tae them, forbye. The fack th on page 140
is a notion that seems tae be attractive tae a lot o fowk. Nou, ye cin on page 146

4 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
they niver actually found ye attractive in the first place. Ah widnae on page 27

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
, the American relatives were attractive tae us because the comics we on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
aw in place fur tae mak them attractive places tae bide and wirk." on page 14
wis important tae mak GME as attractive a place tae wirk as possible. on page 33

2 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
e to find a position far more attractive than on page 3

2 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
s 'spotlessly clean, cosy and attractive', a bank accoont 'amazingly h on page 90

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
airgue for, a mair realistic/ attractive case for independence.
1 matches

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