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The word 'clearer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clearerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82619
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 clearer in Corpus

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Shetland

Mainland, Jim Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
an saa clearer, saa ferdir mebbe, if he hear on page 28

1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
"I doot I canna say it in ony clearer wye," said Alice, aafil eeevi on page 44
apo da table. "Naethin can be clearer as dat. Dan ageen - 'afore s on page 123

2 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ts on e table. "Nothin can be clearer than at. Then again 'afore sh on page 118

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ir names, but their faces are clearer than ivver, their voices and
1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
d th birds n water in th burn clearer n I’ve heard in years. Fir s(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
take your points - becoming clearer now (2020) twitter link

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
“Is it gettin ony clearer, Tammy?”
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
rty shuid be, an as is gettin clearer daily day, Westminster isnae on page 10
oot, the figures tellt a faur clearer story. The reason they stoppi on page 134
as maist European nations hae clearer veesions o the necessity fer on page 140

3 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
and his Dog! To make it even clearer, asked gin ony o’ them had
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ain. Ah need tae git massel a clearer understandin ae ma prognosis.
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
the table. "It disnae git any clearer than that. Then again, 'afore on page 120

1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e huv killed ye tae make that clearer?”
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"I dout I cannae pit it ony clearer," said Alison maist politely, on page 42
s on the table. "Nowt cuid be clearer than that. An then there's 'a on page 44

2 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
e, richt awa - glegger wits, clearer thochts, steiver purpose! Hye on page 140

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
The parallels wi Catalan are clearer, and certes less likely tae h on page 3

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Shooglie at first but clearer and clearer gettin ilka secon on page 151

2 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
lairnin they offer tae hae a clearer focus on developin transferab on page 7

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
tion ava whilk version is the clearer, or wad communicate the messa
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
that’s ainlie been growein clearer by the day for awmaist five m
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
oan th table. "Nithin can b' clearer than that. Then agin 'afore s on page 120

1 matches

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
logo...sorry should have been clearer!(2020)