A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

heavier Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.1 1.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences96 1 0 2 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of heavier in Corpus

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Central

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
n the ground and panting even heavier than afore. They shot the gun on page 39

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e weight ae the hing it feels heavier than it actually should. It's on page 150
ee if she hud been ten poonds heavier, eh? Then ah'da telt her tae on page 152

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
stertit tae faw. The snaw got heavier and heavier and the boar got on page 19

2 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
p slowly come; mah een became heavier 'n' mah breathing became even
1 matches

Doric

Bolland, John Tales Fae The Doric Side - Hadean Eon: 4.5 Billion Years ago , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
exchangin heavier stuff aat sinks atward on page 82

1 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
inside and we de whar dey git heavier and heavier. Send dem oot and (2019) twitter link