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The word 'colourfu'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
colourfuOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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 colourfu in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
'ear the square is hame tae a colourfu an intricate flouer carpet th on page 13
d tae be decoratit wi muckle, colourfu airt relatin tae current even on page 18

3 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
d) had jist landit in a queer colourfu’ land. It tuik them a wee w
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Scotland haes a sindry an colourfu language heritage. The lingui
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
our, sae it wis like a bonnie colourfu watergaw comin skooshin and s on page 104

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ble Scots, on the tae han, an colourfu langage (includin slang and s on page 9

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 63 - Stravaigin The Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ersels (www.seasky.org). This colourfu steid wis pitten thegither bi
1 matches

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