A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'unheard'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unheardOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of unheard in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
dir claes regularly. Dis wis unheard o by humans an trows in Shetl
1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
'ten oot an' Supermarkets wis unheard o' an' fits left on mony a pl on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
he completed 30 yard passes. Unheard o. #BallonDor . Cheers @Jack1(2020)

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ency o spellin is juist aboot unheard o in Scots, baith in Middle S
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s in the space o a fortnicht, unheard o roond these pairts. Noo the
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he wrack an - it wis aamaist unheard o - been allooed in, wi Step
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
es maybe a month, two isn’t unheard of.’
‘Isnae unheard ay?’ Pearcey repeats, angri
2 matches

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