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The word 'bettir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bettirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7123
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 12.7 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31.3 5 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bettir in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
a'waar dey hæ da bettir a'mie quhan'it on page 12

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
id’s a saip operae, an mich bettir nor the fitbaw match in Carly
hauns o thon kinna fowk, the bettir. Thai ar the kell-heid o aw
pit wirds ti wir pheilosophie bettir
e mair he het-trods ahent the bettir. Than
ti onfeize hiz instrument the bettir ti be yibbils ti rin, sen he
5 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
, the owthar retours agane an bettir agane ti the yokin o makkin a on page 13

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
es gane he wes shuir ti think bettir o't, fess me ma fowre pennie on page 5

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
sayed til hissell. ‘This is bettir nir whyt-waashin!’ The sunn
t gif ye lyk. Bot ye’d mich bettir no. Luik sei! Gif ye trewlins
ddie middils wi him. Thai hed bettir no,” he eikit meninfullie.
3 matches

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Thare’s sum wad say it’s bettir that than gaupin at a screin
1 matches

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