A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'funnier'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
funnierOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 funnier in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
@CrispMermaid Whit's even funnier is dey think we dinna notice!(2021)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Aire is naething funnier than an Engerlush quine repea(2018)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
The truith is whiles funnier nor fiction.
1 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ince, ah wis in a freendlier, funnier world. Ah mebbe didnae follae
at yince, the world is freer, funnier, freendlier, and mair fou o d
2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
A haed never read a funnier an mair hertfelt gaithery o s on page 59

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
ed. Maybe Hamlet? But, it wiz funnier. Ah’m shair thur wis some h
1 matches

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