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Use in varieties of Scots

happiness Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.1 16 32 9.9 5.8 10.9 0
Number of occurrences5330 20 1 1 1 0
Number of authors24 16 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of happiness in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
still weary o yer happiness. on page 66

1 matches

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
d ah suppose, her's tae. When happiness wis as routine as wakin up ta on page 34

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
Dolly but hers is in glee an happiness rather than shock an agony li on page 28

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
in England kens the meanin o happiness or leisure efter he is a year on page 6

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e, an the followin year their happiness wis complete when Jennet gied on page 28
r that I've tint mair years o happiness than I ettlt ... But nou I fi on page 69

4 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ae try an encourage health an happiness fer their citizens, but tae k on page 23
ivver contribution tae human happiness, the NHS, as it 'costs ower m on page 127

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Nae fun, nae happiness, nae mirth. on page 90
pleisure, and a feelin o pure happiness spreid ower him. on page 95

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ds were near enough birlin wi happiness, Klaus maist o aw. on page 38

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
for the happiness you bring. on page 54

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O dounhill happiness? on page 77

1 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Tae guidness an happiness. Kennin his warth tae inherit on page 43

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Imagine, freends, imagine happiness, on page 22
Ti luve - och God! - whit happiness! on page 35

5 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
they had seen! But never sic happiness, never sic joy. Their tails w on page 48

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
hmaltzy auld coamic sang, '...happiness costs such a lot.' on page 72

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
iz an I canna thank Ye for my happiness. Gin I juist slaistered on he
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
He gaed on tae speak o 'the happiness an precision' o Sir Jimmy's m
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
in Britain kens the meanin o happiness or easedom efter he is a year
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
room. His new foond sense ae happiness is ma runner’s up prize. Th
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
d opportunities tae find some happiness huv been thin oan the groond.
e, likes. Or it jist might be happiness deep rooted in the news that
2 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
hardly haud its share o happiness. on page 51

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
HAPPINESS IS A WARM BUN on page 159
Come Together or Happiness Is A Warm Gun on page 174

14 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
an investment fur his future happiness. He'd bin an adopted wean, re
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
ntin weemin fae achievin true happiness. Them fa belang tae the muive
ae a man is the anely wey tae happiness acause Ah cam fae a faimly o
2 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
says Peace, love, health and happiness tae ahbody ???? https://t.co/ (2020) twitter link
e ye baith - good health and happiness (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
. We called him James. And me happiness was complete. I loved being a on page 21

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Happiness is openin da fridge door tae (2014) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
and she has a grand sense o’ happiness... https://t.co/2727XgQbP2 (2021) twitter link