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The word 'awesome'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
awesomeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83610
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 7.3 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 32.8 25 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 awesome in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
our haerts, an be awaar o his awesome speerit. on page 41

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
petrels are such interesting, awesome and mesmerising peerie birds.(2016)
azing tailoring thanks to our awesome vets here in Shetland. https:(2017)
Mirrie Dancers put on such an awesome show. Birlin and swirlin acro(2014)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
“The horny-gollachs an awesome beast, soople an scaley. Heâ€
at the forkietail, it WIS an awesome breet. It luikit like a
2 matches

General Northern

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
nds shortly tae get ma fix - awesome city. As a Scot I went native(2019)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nt sleep tonight - its truly awesome - fgs lol (2021) twitter link
gh @HeartsofBeathAF @Cowden81 awesome m8 - we got tickets n it wis (2020) twitter link
it wis awesome - first helicopter av ever s (2021) twitter link

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
'Awesome!' said Kat. 'Dae ye think she on page 19

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
first ever Comedy gig viewing awesome at The Stand #edfringe xxx(2014)
inent once drank and sleep is awesome! xxx(2014)
night Shane! #MySideOfLife is AWESOME READ! xxx(2014)
soon, as 2015 is going tae be awesome fir me wi your sessions in ma(2015)
@JeffBrazier Looks awesome and delish. Now........ahm...(2015)
and 17 other occurrences.

@iainnicol tweeted
@Seunte That is truly awesome, but alas I bide in Embra.(2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
@DooRon31 These foties are awesome. Glad you all had a guid day (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ew life i the affin. Whit ane awesome sicht n’.
1 matches

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