A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bettered Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 1.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences41 1 0 2 0 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of bettered in Corpus

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Central

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
mair, bettered this reel o maist abandon. on page 112

1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Faither, wad niver be bettered tho, in the maitter o stories on page 51

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
.' He pat oot his haand an it bettered up an wis joost lik his göd on page 101
ey wir awaar dat dir skin hed bettered up. Wan o da men wis dat blyd on page 127

2 matches

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