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The word 'sinister'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sinisterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sinister in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
dank an sinister. The boy hid heard the name a on page 30

1 matches

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
that scenario, how absolutely sinister that must have seemed)(2020)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
seemed tae be a sinister place, affa stunnin scenery a
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
fuckin idiot, or, there’s a sinister master plan at work (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
nce ve cuid even mak oot some sinister-lookin gully, wi ootcrops o r on page 77

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
iss this." As he hus a little sinister laugh tae himsel. on page 102

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Sinister Fires on page 40

2 matches

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
n ootstandin baw, tae another sinister-luckin striker.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
le. To rule out anything more sinister’’
‘’Anyhing sinister? Like what, likes?’’
2 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
guy in the middle looks very sinister.(2017)