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The word 'surprises'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
surprisesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4119
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 surprises in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ns have been good and full of surprises!?? (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
1 be? There’s absolutely nae surprises in the line up, as good as we (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
interrupted, however. As Aldo surprises me wae a Jack Daniels and Cok on page 80
Aldo actually surprises the pair ae us though. on page 132

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
The characters is fu o surprises the likes o Mrs. Kaur, Fiona'
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ate’s through the roof. Nae surprises there.
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
veesit. | am reddin up ither surprises that are even mair unco and m on page 60

2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
fter anither, in a sang fou o surprises. on page 94

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e be, we’ve haed a fair few surprises ower the lest 24 hours.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ghter o weans. There micht be surprises, micht even be snaw. Tae aw a on page 77

1 matches

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