A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'highlights'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
highlightsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4147
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23 9 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 highlights in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
goin ta be wan o my lockdown highlights, I hed a super day daday (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
Een o the highlights o the week 11am - coffee and (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
got blue bin black bin in the highlights calendar(2020)

(South) East Central

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
crooned his heid; his blonde highlights illuminating under th' moons
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nslie m8 n al catch up on the highlights oh the game 2 morro (2021) twitter link
lassie singing n watchin the highlights oh the rose lads winnin at sp (2020) twitter link
dFA @WalunaCrew thanx for the highlights of the game guys - and no co (2020) twitter link
ShireFC al need tae watch the highlights later as am busy the noo - m (2020) twitter link
enjoyed n a also watched the highlights of ur game - it was a cracke (2020) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
t. She's a brunette, wae fair highlights runnin through hur straighten on page 25

1 matches

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
ress”,and whit ye see in the highlights,DG should’ve squared that ba(2019)