A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

brighten Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 0 0 19.9 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences60 0 2 4 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of brighten in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Than eftir, whan the cruisies brighten tae morneen, wi Darling yet s on page 49

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
as lights and eerie orams tae brighten up mid winter on page 112

1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
r shop damorn, we towt we wid brighten wir window wi some support fi (2021) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
@JMLockhart2 Luffly news tae brighten a grey day! I'm lookin forwar(2020) search twitter
k seein a young kittiwake tae brighten up a grey day.(2014) search twitter
Flowers brighten da grey days walkies https://(2020) search twitter