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The word 'gracious'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
graciousOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61211
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gracious in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
An be gracious untae ye
1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
e time, the publicity and his gracious acceptance o loss did neither on page 125

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
e time, the publicity and his gracious acceptance o loss did neither
1 matches

General Northern

Wilkie, Dave , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
ight as I think of my Bonnie, gracious wife.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
laun wi hask wather. It isna gracious an growthie. Monie
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Holy Moses. Guidness Gracious! Hail Sallassie - whit a pit on page 23

1 matches

Lehane, Matt Gif I was, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
gif I was… I’d be ower gracious tae sanction unctuous praise
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
bance, she was as elegant and gracious as ever. And Her Laird bade t on page 3

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Guid gracious, it's Penelope.) on page 159

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
be gracious ti them. on page 35

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
Goodness gracious me! It was real pleasure tae (2015)

General Ulster

Alexander, Brian Yarns 3 - Pilgrimage tae Passchendaele, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Dufferin, prose
o Ulster, leal subjects o His Gracious Heichness Keeng George V, hum
1 matches

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