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Use in varieties of Scots

optimism Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences86 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of optimism in Corpus

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Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
me. It's tae be admired, his optimism, ah suppose. on page 23

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
brimmin wi the confidence an optimism ay a nourished life. on page 3

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Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Scots optimism on page 186

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Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
owk wis luikin forrit wi mair optimism than they had had for years.
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
go up it, it wis either blind optimism or a blatant lie. The only wa
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Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n syne an unexpeckit feelin o optimism rose inside Jack as he pushed on page 96

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
night wis lippan wi a sense o optimism aboot Orkney dialect, a wides
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