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The word 'ironic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ironicOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82217
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 ironic in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ony caese, hit’s certainly ironic foo dis kind o thing is becom
1 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
1 aye wee Wullie winkie, awfa ironic last time a Quine ca'ad Mary (2015)

@72redz1903 tweeted
Ross? That wid be a slightly ironic appointment (2022) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
noo intae property, which is ironic. Ironic as its it’s the lac
. Ironic as its it’s the lack o habi
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
an thair history, he maks the ironic consait aboot hou warkin fowk
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
an "stop": this is ane o thae ironic "de-Anglicisms" that maks Sco
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
can take in all the action - ironic thing is that big crowds woul (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
We bigg ironic metaphors o stane; on page 42

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
port o Scott (aiblins this is ironic, for the fack is that thai've on page 138

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
renae jist obscene, they were ironic. Wha is Theresa May askin fer on page 11

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
k leid, than he made thaim an ironic, auld-farrant bow an translat
er. Which made it aa the mair ironic that the doup o Tibet had act
ae decide whedder he wis bein ironic or no.
3 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
tae aither? For me, it's gey ironic at, efter ma ain attemps ower on page 9

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
. Becis o the tribbles, it is ironic that Ulster Scots, wi gey few on page 121

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
misquotation can be witty or ironic, or juist add an interestin d
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth For the fat romantics, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Is it no ironic, in the teeth o aw the eviden
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
@JoeLampard2 He wis bein ironic.(2020)

@fairpechtoot tweeted
ye mean ‘standardisation’? Ironic that the word ‘standardise’(2019)
mith Ah ken, was tryin tae be ironic! ??(2019)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
oan the pitch, he is Big Al, ironic eh? https://t.co/TpeyaWkZv9(2020)