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The word 'bizarre'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bizarreOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61211
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 13.3 3 2
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 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 bizarre in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
flashes o hilarious rudeness, bizarre surrealism, or candid introsp on page 1

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
f North-East Scotland absurd, bizarre, and unhidebound happenings o
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
eleted his Twitter account - bizarre (2022) twitter link
go tae pub afore the game - bizarre (2020) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
How bizarre that ane o th games on ferry (2011)

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
eet on the pavements wis jist bizarre behaviour in onywan’s book.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
logies an coontin kin. It wis bizarre - twathree generations back
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ings, terrible selfish hings, bizarre hings, hings that don't make on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt La Le La Le La Iron Mountain, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
bizarre czars
1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
difficult tae retrieve really bizarre spellins. The search is limit on page 17

1 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
k o Glesca haes been cried “bizarre” by Joe McGuire, screivin f
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
dae here in Airdrie. For some bizarre reason that naebody seems tae(2020)

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