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The word 'greener'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
greenerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71211
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of greener in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Laevan icy puddles an greener fields on page 115

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
at hame. the grass isna iwis greener, and theres something aboot b

@DoricPhrases tweeted
The girss is aye greener on the ither side! https://t.(2017)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@HopepunkQ Wi Hughie Greener(2019)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
e oor heids become fuller and greener. Andrew starts walking by my
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@TacketyBeets Athins greener though(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
aye the grass is greener on the other side - the whis (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
e growein need tae look fer a greener future, the economics o oil s on page 24

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
e said the grass isnae always greener oan the other side and not ta on page 43
though the grass isnae always greener oan the other side, ah cannae on page 83

2 matches

McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
The grass was greener for restless he
1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An the grass is lukkin greener, wae the bit o het an rain. on page 48

1 matches

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