Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'awkward'

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Use in varieties of Scots

awkward	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	11.1	36	21
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	6.5	2	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	17.7	7	5
WCE - West Central	32.2	7	2
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	36.4	8	4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	6.6	5	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)	163.5	1	1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
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 awkward in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
You're a mean and awkward beggar and you don't deserve on page 22

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
hrase Contermacious fit means Awkward.(2014)
Aat awkward moment fin ye ging tae the ci(2019)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
pGadgetBlogs @JimSpenceDundee Awkward squad has been used tae defin (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
id say Perth shire jist to be awkward(2020)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
oke goes. 'Well he works affa awkward shifts'. (2023) twitter link

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
roon an legs it, fast as his awkward gait will cairry him, awa doo on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
An awkward silence develops between us. on page 170
didnae make us feel any less awkward than we awready did. We baith on page 188

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
ay 'I love you', but hugs me, awkward and fierce. Gies me a bosie.
1 matches

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
, an we'd lost touch efter an awkward message exchange on Facebook
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
wer tae Declan and gie him an awkward wee pat oan the shooder. If a
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
huffle ower tae gie Declan an awkward wee pat oan the shooder. If a
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
There wis a pure awkward silence after that. Then Kell on page 26
e's went an put me in another awkward situation. It aw startet when on page 79
ter that because ah felt pure awkward, but it wis quite hard especi on page 127
ssie Duffy wis wi looked dead awkward. Ah don't think she knew whit on page 169

5 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
aid tae Karen, Dae yi no feel awkward sittin next tae him. Whit yi
1 matches

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
ein self-conscious aboot thon awkward shoes I’m hirplin in an jus
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
awkward, but that's nae bather, on page 26

1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
that makes ye feel a wee bit awkward. This is how the world works on page 26

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
cheaper wan). Humf that, huge awkward borrowed bouzouki in case, re on page 3

5 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
awkward silence descends. 'It's my dr on page 7

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
om doon the hall, breakin the awkward silence.
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ish though,' ah say before an awkward silence kin descend. on page 12

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
s toddlin behind hur. We make awkward eye contact under the flicker on page 33

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
arden. Now I am being o/t and awkward but how does on winterise a g(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
telt me. It wis parteecularly awkward when, at age 7, Ah got (2020)
na's lost aa her inhibitions? Awkward. #Corrie(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
be used to describe a clumsy, awkward person or even a footery obje(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
laik a pack o grulshes, slow, awkward and overweight people. George on page 32

1 matches