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The word 'surprisin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
surprisinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41812
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.2 5 3
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
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 surprisin in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"Foo sood I ken?" said Alice, surprisin hersel wi foo brave shö wis on page 81

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Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
o catchie wi Birsie. Hit’s surprisin hoo quick a hedgehog can shif
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
om full ae folk, it's kind ae surprisin that ah've never felt maire a on page 53
lly, eh? a plump lassie wae a surprisin fizzy personality. Her dress on page 173

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
tack wi haes noticed some gey surprisin ootcomes. In particlar, mony
e abuin report shaws some gey surprisin ootcomes baith wi the bairns
2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
l in a database, an the maist surprisin thing o aa is hou consistent
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West Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
ory is so mental that it's no surprisin that Ah canny think o a norma on page 102

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
n Derick Thomson. It wul be a surprisin discoverie for sum, bearin in
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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tephen. Weill, it wis haurdly surprisin. She wis noo in the warld tha
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
w aw day. Which is maire than surprisin considerin ah’m the pipelin
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ain. Mind ye, that's mebbe no surprisin, for he's gey near aichty ... on page 60

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General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
e be considered. Sae it is no surprisin gin DOST haesna covered mair on page 15

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
iterary’, and this micht be surprisin in a collection o plays that
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Thoumire, Elizabeth In defence o SNHS, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
mair tae the fore its hairdly surprisin that emergency services get e
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
It’s haurdly surprisin there wisnae a peck o fat on
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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
haimmerin? Maugre o twa-thrie surprisin victories (Iain Gray haudin A
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