A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

betters Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.7 4 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences98 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of betters 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

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
an mind that wir 'betters' wid raither the clan on page 77

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ien the richt tae vote bi oor betters, alang wi the idea that naebu on page 32
ae doff their caps tae their 'betters' they arenae ma betters, or y on page 45
the keich that they are oor 'betters'. It's whit they are tellt at on page 84

5 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
hem that thocht theirsels his betters. on page 90
wk wha thocht they were their betters, or no, disnae really maitter on page 116

2 matches

Doric

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
s o mackie-on mait servin oor betters. I stell get cringe factor te
1 matches

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