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Use in varieties of Scots

vivid Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 3.6 3 0 11.6 10.3 13.3
Number of occurrences157 2 0 2 1 3
Number of authors13 6 2 2 1 2

Occurrences of vivid in Corpus

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Central

Love, Rowena M. Lallans 82 - Hame tae Dunbar Harbour, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
vivid as the wound oan ma knee on page 41

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
table, lik 'shapely bodies', 'vivid' fantasies, 'spirited wee lad on page 90

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
oem aw thegither, Hershaw, wi vivid imagination, imposes human an
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e - ethereal, like some mad, vivid dream. There’s a noise some
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
s ay the efternoon seems mare vivid an bright, the snow oan the g
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
udden vision o the future, so vivid that it taen him awa frae wha

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
snae change the fact that the vivid memories ae his battles wae c
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
en fit tae mak o’t. An ower vivid imagination? Ah thocht Ah mic
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fu weel that his sister hid a vivid imagination an like as no the
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“My maist vivid memory as a tadpole wis ee da
1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
I’m been hivin really vivid dreams aboot meeting da cast (2020) twitter link

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
uses it the Auld Toun: A’ve vivid maimories o the auld John Gle
1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
e a smile hae wil recal' some vivid foreign scene, on page 43

1 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Vivid colour, finest sheen, on page 20
Darkest blue thon vivid hue, on page 40

2 matches

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