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The word 'queerest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
queerestOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central
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 queerest in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
de e White Rabbit, "an at's e queerest thing aboot id." (E jury all on page 115

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an licht. An syne he hid the queerest feelin - like he wis bein pu on page 78

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
s a laidder, wis thon nae the queerest thing? A laidder o pure licht
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ce got inti her heid were the queerest eens oot, an in the eyn it wi on page 72

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
happened neist wis ane o the queerest ’hings I’v seen in ma hun
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
White Rabbit, "an that's the queerest thing aboot it." (The jury aa on page 44

1 matches

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