Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'unlucky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

unlucky	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	7.8	26	12
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	35.2	1	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	13.1	4	3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	28.4	11	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	20.1	4	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	3	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)	31.4	1	1
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 unlucky in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
ine, bit if sho tocht dey wir unlucky and dey cam in on her laying

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
emainan behind till execute e unlucky gardeners, who ran till Alice on page 78

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
wi the terrible Tina wis jist unlucky." on page 35

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
gth ooto ye. Forbye it's affa unlucky .'
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Were Aiberdeen unlucky to nae get aa 3pts? Shockin f(2019)

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
nt fae Eddie’s rope. It wis unlucky that the ghillie had been the
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
joy a wee celebration guys - unlucky livvy! (2021) twitter link
with the coverage etc etc - unlucky on the result but hutchie imo (2020) twitter link
aithnessFootie @WickAcademyFC unlucky for u then lol (2020) twitter link
at effort by the home side - unlucky but keep the heeds up - crac (2021) twitter link
@edinburghpaper unlucky guys - great effort though (2020) twitter link
and 6 other occurrences.

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
steyin ahint tae execute the unlucky gairdners, who ran tae Alice on page 80
the Lizard as she spoke. (The unlucky Bill hid left oaf writin oan on page 120
ice ae the Queen oarderin her unlucky guests oaf tae execution--wan on page 122

3 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
eelin, phone stealin basturt. Unlucky, hen. on page 20

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
and braw, but they were awfie unlucky, and jist aboot awthin that h on page 1

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
happens i war. Oor lads were unlucky tae be taen, but whit dae ye
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
@ClydeU21 Unlucky Boys. On tae the next...??. ?(2019)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ers styin baehin tae kill the unlucky gairdeners, wha run tae Alice on page 81

1 matches