Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dearer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

dearer	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	7
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	11.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire	26.2	2	2
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 dearer in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Sutherland, Stella Midder, (Shetland For Wirds 2014) Shetland, poetry
Dearer as edder o wis ken,
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
nely 12 streets warldwide are dearer fan it cams doon tae the pric on page 7

1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
t's quick tae mak and beef is dearer. The consistency should reall(2019)
vver change. Aiberdeen is aye dearer. An er's aye some dodger tryi(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ah alweys imagined it wid be dearer than that" says Craig, who se on page 107

1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
aefauld PR vote an it is mair dearer as our ain seestem tae rin. I
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
s Jenny - an there wis nocht dearer tae his hert - he wad hae ta on page 81

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
Na, na - a leivin craiter is dearer ti me nor aa the treisures o on page 42

1 matches