Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'positives'

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Use in varieties of Scots

positives	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.4	8	5
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	17.4	3	2
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	17.7	4	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.4	1	1
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)
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 positives in Corpus

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Shetland

@HazelTindall tweeted
rta - du's good at finnin da positives! Hae da best day du can.(2017)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
oon moments and only share da positives which isna healthy. Du shares (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
Hayes, Vinny and Polvara. The positives is the performance o the new (2022) twitter link
but I thought there were some positives (2022) twitter link
, looking back of course, had positives that explains the rose tint (2020) twitter link

@daleser23 tweeted
cotty haha i just look at the positives. It cana go up(2013)

(South) East Central

Matthews, Andrew Lallans 104 - Skiddlie Thochts, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
the 'negatives' then fur the 'positives' o life. Daes this juist haud on page 81

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