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The word 'fabulous'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fabulousOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.798
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 fabulous in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
have i missed it?!) and she's fabulous in that too.(2014)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
hear is 'Wonderful! Amazing! Fabulous!', An aabody's speerin fit an on page 31

2 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 oh that wud b fabulous. Am jist oot tesco havin spen(2011)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
akes an her girdle scones wir fabulous tae eat.
1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
exist. They jalouse they’re fabulous craturs oot o fiction like Go
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
€™s optimists, everything wis fabulous or beautiful (sometimes baith
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
dog ????.....I've got Mrs H a fabulous one day adventure booked.. Bu (2023) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ot', we're all ears. Gies yer fabulous ideas. Naw? Ah didnae think s(2020)