A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'brighten'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brightenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.964
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of brighten in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Than eftir, whan the cruisies brighten tae morneen, wi Darling yet s on page 49

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Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
as lights and eerie orams tae brighten up mid winter on page 112

1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
r shop damorn, we towt we wid brighten wir window wi some support fi (2021) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
@JMLockhart2 Luffly news tae brighten a grey day! I'm lookin forwar(2020)
k seein a young kittiwake tae brighten up a grey day.(2014)
Flowers brighten da grey days walkies https://(2020)