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The word 'hilarious'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hilariousOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51815
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
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 393.1 3 2
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 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 hilarious in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
here are occasional flashes o hilarious rudeness, bizarre surrealism, on page 1

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
language is rich, expressive, hilarious, humane, profound, and gallus
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
fae Uyeasound Up Helly Aa is hilarious ?? It made me greet ??DJ Char(2018)

Mid Northern B

Johnston, Shaun The Forkie Gollach, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
up an doon. We thocht it wis hilarious.
dirt. Ma freens thocht it wis hilarious! I wid niver live this doon!
2 matches

@McGoo1888 tweeted
aps aw looking efter me...wis hilarious...pelted feck oot them...grea (2022) twitter link

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@_aidanflynn Feckin hilarious ??????(2018)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ordy o ony clessic farce. The hilarious slaw motion reunitin at the h
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@DicaculusManiac its hilarious but in this case - not unexp (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
cookery an he thinks this is hilarious. Ah huv tae sit next tae him on page 85

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
nar cynical, witty an bawdily hilarious satires. The First Buik o Sat on page 101

1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
Hilarious - the ‘women won’t wheesht (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
nae even aye wark. It wuid be hilarious gin it werenae sae gut-wrench on page 120

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
r Buddha Da that A fund baith hilarious an affa touchin. A'v aye love on page 58

1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
Iain Crichton Smith? They are hilarious in their portrayal of Highlan(2019)

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
whit yer referring tae anaw. Hilarious ??(2019)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
otPaul @TMacailpein @molach95 Hilarious, that’s whit ahm quite unsur(2020)
hydeaffc Aye but it looked as hilarious!(2020)