A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

brighter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1.5 0 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences63 0 1 2 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of brighter in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the dragon, eh? insteed ae a brighter tomorrow. And who could blame on page 90

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@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
e hear yir feelin a wee bitty brighter the day ma freen. Hae a virtu(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
essie jist maks yer day a lot brighter. Even got masel a big tin o' (2020) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Me talents glowan brighter than the star o Rabbie Burns. on page 3

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
. I dunna ken but I'm feeling brighter #BreakfastBirdwatch https://t(2020) search twitter
ajmossie thanks Paula. I feel brighter about the future. Bit overwhe(2017) search twitter