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The word 'vivid'
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Use in varieties of Scots vivid Occurrences normalised per million words Occurrences Authors
Dialect map - Usage over time
Total Corpus 4.7 15 13 ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
11.6
2
2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
3.3
1
1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
11.9
1
1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
2.6
1
1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
6.3
1
1
GLA - Glasgow
10.9
2
1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
4
3
3
SEA - South East (Borders)
12.5
1
1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
163.5
1
1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
176.7
2
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 vivid in Corpus
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the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.
Shetland
Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins , (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“My maist vivid memory as a tadpole wis ee da
1 matches
@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Im been hivin really vivid dreams aboot meeting da cast (2020) twitter link
Mid Northern A
Blackhall, Sheena Minnie , (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fu weel that his sister hid a vivid imagination an like as no the
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Aberdeen
Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
en fit tae mak o’t. An ower vivid imagination? Ah thocht Ah mic
1 matches
(South) East Central
Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168 , (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
oem aw thegither, Hershaw, wi vivid imagination, imposes human an
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Edinburgh
Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2 , (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
snae change the fact that the vivid memories ae his battles wae c
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Glasgow
Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two) , (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e - ethereal, like some mad, vivid dream. There’s a noise some
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Bennett, Peter Park trife , (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
s ay the efternoon seems mare vivid an bright, the snow oan the g
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General Central
Love, Rowena M. Lallans 82 - Hame tae Dunbar Harbour , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
vivid as the wound oan ma knee on page 41
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Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews , (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
table, lik 'shapely bodies', ' vivid ' fantasies, 'spirited wee lad on page 90
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Facebook link ( 2016) Central
udden vision o the future, so vivid that it taen him awa frae wha
South East (Borders)
Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter , (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
uses it the Auld Toun: A’ve vivid maimories o the auld John Gle
1 matches
West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems , (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
e a smile hae wil recal' some vivid foreign scene, on page 43
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Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams , (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Vivid colour, finest sheen, on page 20
Darkest blue thon vivid hue, on page 40
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