A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'brightened'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
brightenedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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 3.3 1 1
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 15.1 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 brightened in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
up boddy lyin i da bed. Shü brightened up an smiled whin shü saa me on page 45

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
r o a butterfly in ma gairden brightened up ma day. https://t.co/VSyUV(2016)

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
inches high noo, an her face brightened up at the thought she wis the on page 13
" said the King. (The jury aw brightened up again.) on page 117

2 matches

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
Ah'm thinkin how mum brightened up when she spoke tae the doc on page 12

1 matches

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
sire' an afore the bride had 'brightened the whole room and radiated l on page 90

1 matches

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