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The word 'unexpectit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unexpectitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.31110
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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) 605.7 1 1
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 unexpectit in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Fobie fun an unexpectit tear rin doon is face es he l on page 76

1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
But the unexpectit virtue o haudin yer wheesht h
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
in me (affectit participant) (unexpectit-like) a preen (affectit objec
him back. He staggert wi the unexpectit wecht that she pit on his erm
2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
That comes unexpectit in the nicht directit by a bo on page 83

1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
thair lugs war blastit wi an unexpectit sound. A piper an drummer, br on page 25

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Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ist come-uppance in the maist unexpectit wey! The national bard coudna on page 133

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Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
he worry o skitin an daein an unexpectit henner in amang the trees!
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Ahmad, Nyla How We Celebrate – scrievin prompt, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
e.g. Noo add a skailin o the unexpectit. Kirn it in wi the mixter-max
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South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
third bairn filled yer belly unexpectit. Queer that, sic a gap syne t on page 78

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Donegal (East Donegal)

Millar, Alan Yarns 3 - Sammy Thomson's, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - East Donegal, prose
haets an caules foun in unexpectit places.
1 matches

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