Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'spectacular'

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Use in varieties of Scots

spectacular	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.7	9	6
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
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	21	2	1
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)	58.1	1	1
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 spectacular in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The view is so spectacular, hid taks their breath away on page 48

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
Da Grind o da Navir is a spectacular place. Grind is gate, but whi

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
guillemots at Da Head daday! Spectacular seas http://t.co/EjUMksFMxU(2015)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
hat thou. Arguably, the maist spectacular pairt o 'Las Fallas' is the d on page 4
, 'at daesnae mak it ony less spectacular. Luvers o fuid, history an ar on page 13

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ffa peaceful. Some stunnin an spectacular rock formations made it a rea
reflection wis sae clear an spectacular . Swoopin aboot the tap o the
o the formation o the cave is spectacular . The
3 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Dickey, William Yarns 3 - Annual General Report, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, prose
e State when his nephew did a spectacular Geri Haliwell tribute ect whi
1 matches