A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

bestest Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 1.5 0 5.8 0 3.9
Number of occurrences63 1 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of bestest in Corpus

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Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
d annoyance. Even Ishbel, her bestest freend, haed bin makin noises on page 1

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
d appearances I'll defo do ma bestest tae attend. xxx??????(2015) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
mair fake news. The biggest, bestest, humongesest fake news EVER.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
hame - safe an secret ~ the bestest present Ah'd ivver gotten. on page 66

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Proud gardener moment. Da bestest compost I've ever made ever. (2016) search twitter

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
st of them. But I'm still the bestest hater ever. https://t.co/OfVN(2019) search twitter