A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lighten Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 1.6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences64 1 0 1 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of lighten in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'Oh, lighten up.' She reaches fur her phon on page 3
'Aw, lighten up. It wis only wan wee line. on page 16

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
his presence done nuttin tae lighten the tense mood in the air. He on page 187

1 matches

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
twice, fan ma mammy tried tae lighten the mood. It didna help.
1 matches

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
d me nae harm, folks need tae lighten up... ‘ aye right https://t. (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
on for last an hooped hit wid lighten da mood.
1 matches

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