A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'betther'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bettherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9235
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 200.1 20 3
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of betther in Corpus

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Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Reynolds, Charlie Krisamas time is draa’in near, (Ullans Speakers Association 2011) Ulster - Coleraine, prose
eedy for it wull maak ye feel betther in yersel - for efter aa, th
for efter aa, they sae it is betther tae gie nir receive.
2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
’s guid an strang an wud be betther nor a cruik”. John sayed ay
1 matches

General Ulster

HRConnect Candidate Wittens Beuklet, (Northern Ireland Executive 2025) Ulster, government
betther an' tae forder the leid, airt on page 4
n oan a Commissioner tae mak' betther an' forder the leid, on page 8

4 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
betther the library cataloguin' an' i on page 9
Braidcast Legacy - Tae mak' betther the legacy an' acce3ss the br on page 10
a "shaired an' betther" future. Oniething less wulna on page 16
ae Ulster-Scots bit can bae a betther policy framewaark fer ivryboa on page 17
an' maide betther an' gies new maide inspiratio on page 19
Also on pages 28, 30, 47, 58, 59, 63, 672, 68, 69
15 matches

Belfast City Council Leid Strategy – Draft Ection Plen 2023-2026, (Belfast City Council 2023) Ulster, government
tae heft, bield an’ mak’ betther the leid diversity o’ the c
1 matches

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