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Use in varieties of Scots

positives Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 0.5 5.9 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences81 4 0 3 0 0
Number of authors5 1 2 2

Occurrences of positives in Corpus

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Central

Matthews, Andrew Lallans 104 - Skiddlie Thochts, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
the 'negatives' then fur the 'positives' o life. Daes this juist haud on page 81

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Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
Hayes, Vinny and Polvara. The positives is the performance o the new (2022) twitter link
but I thought there were some positives (2022) twitter link
, looking back of course, had positives that explains the ‘rose tint (2020) twitter link

@daleser23 tweeted
cotty haha i just look at the positives. It cana go up(2013) search twitter

Shetland

@HazelTindall tweeted
rta - du's good at finnin da positives! Hae da best day du can.(2017) search twitter

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
oon moments and only share da positives which isna healthy. Du shares (2020) twitter link