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The word 'gigantic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
giganticOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6208
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gigantic in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
scoop up the toon in gigantic airms
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
foo juist ae person can mak a gigantic difference.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
gigantic an blue, is harlie movin,
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
er kintras, but are aboot the gigantic profits tae be made in the pr on page 122

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
A gigantic puppy wis lookin doon at her on page 40
e her draw back in a hurry: a gigantic doo hid flown right up intae on page 52

2 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
His ears are gigantic, an oan tap ae his shoulder on page 27

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
h the wheels o some monstrous gigantic machine were birlin roond at on page 71
The place wis like a gigantic rabbit bourie, wi passages le on page 72
nough that they were inside a gigantic pipe, and the muckle waws cur on page 97
ie Baffie glowered aroond the gigantic room whaur he noo foond himse on page 100
nka led the pairty ower tae a gigantic machine that stood richt in t on page 104
Also on pages 111, 167
8 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
en doon had aboot five hunner gigantic purpie peels in it. FOR CUDDI on page 28
e first thing she saw wis the gigantic broon chookie tooerin ower we on page 59
ook aff aboot the ferm on the gigantic pownie, lowpin ower trees and on page 71

4 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ued in buiks he had read in a gigantic attic in a lopsided folly. on page 53

1 matches

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