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Use in varieties of Scots

bettir Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 5.7 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1211 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of bettir in Corpus

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Central

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
, the owthar retours agane an bettir agane ti the yokin o makkin a on page 13

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
es gane he wes shuir ti think bettir o't, fess me ma fowre pennie on page 5

1 matches

Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Thare’s sum wad say it’s bettir that than gaupin at a screin
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
sayed til hissell. ‘This is bettir nir whyt-waashin!’ The sunn
t gif ye lyk. Bot ye’d mich bettir no. Luik sei! Gif ye trewlins
ddie middils wi him. Thai hed bettir no,” he eikit meninfullie.
3 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
id’s a saip operae, an mich bettir nor the fitbaw match in Carly
hauns o thon kinna fowk, the bettir. Thai ar the kell-heid o aw
pit wirds ti wir pheilosophie bettir
e mair he het-trods ahent the bettir. Than
ti onfeize hiz instrument the bettir ti be yibbils ti rin, sen he
5 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
a'waar dey hæ da bettir a'mie quhan'it on page 12

1 matches

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