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The word 'misfortune'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
misfortuneOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.488
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
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of misfortune in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
re...an accident...some kinna misfortune." on page 38

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
an passed by ma misfortune
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
e finnd oot, Mary haes haen a misfortune an been gien hir jotters. Hin on page 142

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
flated disasters n moments of misfortune’, Nichols wid just be like
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ee cunts who sprinted hud the misfortune ae losin a trainer n trippin on page 20

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ain storm ah’d ever hud the misfortune ay bein caught in, ponderin o
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
eisure tae a great nobleman's misfortune, that had fashed him at the t on page 48

1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
a wee bittie pit by agin the misfortune she wis shuir wis aye lurkin.
1 matches

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