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Use in varieties of Scots

widen Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 5.1 3 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1310 2 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 5 2 1

Occurrences of widen in Corpus

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Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
The gowden point started tae widen as Tam got nearer tae it. Noo on page 48

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
limbs, heart speeds up, eyes widen. Efter five minutes, it reach on page 3

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
anyfin but the flair. Ma eyes widen when ah realise he's scrivin on page 7

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
He sits slumped intae a blue widen airmchair wae his hands in hi on page 179

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
nyfink but the flair. Ma eyes widen when ah realise he's scrivin on page 8
he wooden table. Dante's eyes widen. on page 40

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
n lessens, the doactor's eyes widen. on page xx
Mr Gregory's eyes widen. 'Oh,' he says. 'I won't pry. on page 117

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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ned a German dive bomber an a widen streecher thigither. Allooin on page 65

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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
that’s disguised as a dark widen cabinet. Openin the hing up a
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Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s, Neil wished his wife could widen her wee bourach o freens, an
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@fittiecrooners tweeted
it, yon bit far ye've got yon widen boats lying aboot is far I us(2018) search twitter

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
as muckle as we laek, we can widen it as muckle as we laek. So w
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