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The word 'awful'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
awfulOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus48.816221
ORK - Orkney 69.6 7 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 4465.9 127 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 53.2 12 6
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 348.9 6 2
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 awful in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thir's no doot hids an awful grand thing on page 109
Hids awful grand tae hae Orcadian on page 125
Tae this awful bruck an gobbledegook. on page 135

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@peediepuss tweeted
@TheEliselise Awful, horrendous, but better found (2021) twitter link
flett @MoiraFin So sorry min. Awful, just awful.(2020)
@DonegalDrift That is most awful fine, beuy!(2020)

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
e howked oot, new - fangled, awful shrill.) on page 18

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Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Why do you people wear these awful Fair Isle yokes? They make yo on page 13

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@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@drl Jesus. Dats awful (2020) twitter link

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Alice wis beginnan till get awful tired o sittan eeside her sis on page 7
e found hersel fallan doon an awful deep well. on page 8
top o e hoose !" (Wheech wis awful leckly true.) on page 9
lkan again. "Dinah'll miss me awful much e nicht, A think!" (Dina on page 10
ucht poor Alice, "id wid be o awful peedy use withoot ma shoulder on page 11
Also on pages 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31, 33, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 57, 59, 60, 64, 65, 67, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 96, 98, 99, 100, 105, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 114, 115, 120
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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and the last months hid been awful as the dementia teen a hud o
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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
t. "Michty me, Dod, that's an awful hoast you have!" said MacTavi on page 107

1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Conrad: Ah feel awful. Ower moany late nichts. on page 40

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McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
stairs tae ma bed. Wullie wis awful thochtie an gaid fite hissel,
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@72redz1903 tweeted
recruitment fae Glass , jist awful mix o players. (2022) twitter link
l. Cove get fit 600 max in an awful stadium wi nae atmosphere. Co (2022) twitter link
n Longstaff, but, he has been awful in the games had with the Don (2021) twitter link
n English Premiership, fuckin awful. Secret is tae be collectivel (2020) twitter link

@daleser23 tweeted
be a decent game ina. Benzema awful inite ina. Recovered fae week(2013)
@RossAndrew7 kane. Sum awful defending fae benfica like(2013)
lin41091 aye. Watchin fitba. #awful(2013)
@MikeyForbes1 haha aye awful like(2014)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
@ScottishFA just awful to watch. Tactics all wrong. (2016)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
ledy redd up!' too... what an awful mess!(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
id the deed, she said. That's awful, said Harpreet. Aye, ah said. on page 58

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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
And before ah ken it this God awful eery silence starts tae conta
1 matches

Glasgow

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
it hit them - the most foul, awful stench ye could imagine! It w
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Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
l it for a million. It looked awful, but ma sister said she’d p
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
e the hospital wi him. Ah’m awful sorry hen, ah don’t know ho
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
Tae see what awful sicht pertains, We' ll heddie on page 22

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Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Bot childer carred wi awful faer, on page 18
Yer fashion flits sae awful soon, on page 19
Truth wull blush wi awful faer on page 26
It chargeth forth thein awful clout, on page 48
Ir ein succumb til awful cowld on page 49

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