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The word 'positivity'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
positivityOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.965
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of positivity in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
I'm lovin da excitement and positivity aboot votin. I'm a heart and (2014)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
time roon, we hae the pouer o positivity an whit we need tae dae is ta on page 51

1 matches

General Central

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
The positivity an hope frae the Yes campaign
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
y tae turn oor negative intae positivity an however long it takes us t(2015)
last year helped me regain ma positivity back. So 2017 in goin tae spr(2017)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Hooiniver langside thon positivity hit's kent at: on page 13

1 matches

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