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The word 'fortunate'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fortunateOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61210
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
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 fortunate in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
a'sum 'fortunate' faa? on page 13

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I'm feelin pretty fortunate to live on an island which of(2016)

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
e. Bit the twa teachers | wis fortunate tae hae made a mano' me. on page 29

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
lookin back now is maire than fortunate. Ah cannae tell yae how bad a
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Jist seems mair fortunate, seems brichter; on page 31
In Glesca's hertlands, fortunate weans. on page 88

2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
n that process, A hae ben gey fortunate tae fin masel. In twa weys, ' on page 40

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
babes: our family is fortunate, our losses no so great as ma on page 3

2 matches

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ht wey o editin. Oo war maist fortunate tae hae the help o Professor on page 59

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
al tendency is ane o the less fortunate affeomes o haein English in s on page 10

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@g_hibby tweeted
ye, I do consider masel' very fortunate tae have her... ?? (2023) twitter link

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