Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hilarious'

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Use in varieties of Scots

hilarious	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.7	19	16
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	335.6	3	2
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	4.9	2	2
WCE - West Central	17.8	4	4
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	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

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.

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

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
when she wis twaa and it wis hilarious. When we startit singin the f on page 102

1 matches

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 wont 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, thats whit ahm quite unsur(2020)
hydeaffc Aye but it looked as hilarious!(2020)