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Use in varieties of Scots

highlight Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 3.1 7.5 19.9 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences166 5 2 3 0 0
Number of authors14 6 3 2 3

Occurrences of highlight in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
tlety may huv only served tae highlight the issue as ah notice her ga
1 matches

Wilson, Lucy Lock Doon, (Greenock Telegraph 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
l aw be gein it laldy and the highlight of ma week wint be a trip tae
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
r. Opportunities are taken to highlight the Charter in speeches given
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
as won the Gorl Crish Twitter Highlight o the day wi sic a storer o a(2020) search twitter

@LairnScots tweeted
ory commissioned by @gtcs tae highlight the importance o Scots: https (2020) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
allion thanx again guys n the highlight 2 nite wis the pint danny bot (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
be served separately) - the highlight o ivvery Christmas denner as
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@72redz1903 tweeted
happy and humbled today, the highlight being Derek Mcinnes takin the (2020) twitter link
new season starting wid be a highlight especially first game agin th (2020) twitter link
ians Cerys on a Sunday is the highlight of the week for this family, (2020) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 th highlight o th weekend!(2012) search twitter

Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
wanted more material that wid highlight the Orkney trials and contrib on page 34

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Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The highlight o the whole affair's the fina on page 29

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ae twa feet each, bit da real highlight a da night wis ta push dir ma on page 93

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
A voar highlight is frogs gadderin in da loch
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@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Da highlight o my week eenoo is da Radio S (2020) twitter link

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