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The word 'fearless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fearlessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3118
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 fearless in Corpus

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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
burgh? Those peerie moots are fearless these days(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
fuck her. God, ah wis fuckin fearless back in the day; ah hud such on page 14

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
Her rendition o a strang, fearless, clever wumman livin in pre-e
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Resolute, fearless, auld William McCaw, on page 21
t an ill-mou'd, let's caa him fearless an forthricht. on page 118

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
nd o handsome, wi his totally fearless character, Davie Gray ower ti on page 84
is speech but Davie Gray, the fearless poacher, was nae mair and aw on page 90

2 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
oon starts the wiy they talk, fearless. A slow, jumpy thing. It's th on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e fecht for the Covenant wi a fearless certainty founded on the supr on page 34

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
Resolute, fearless, auld William McCaw.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Cat Wumman: Tales O Nine Lives - The Witch, (Luath 2025 ISBN: 978-1804252420) Central - Peebles, prose
orton, the butcher's dochter, fearless she wis, an fair excitin tae on page 40

1 matches

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