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The word 'stronger'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
strongerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.62821
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 4
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 stronger in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
news. Now you're a peedie bit stronger than you were afore. Somethin (2021) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ilience is mair laekli tae be stronger, an dat maks fir better educa on page 9

1 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
? Watch an weep! Ah'm faster, stronger, better co-ordinated dan du c
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hi mair they scrootenized thi stronger thi opinion's bicaim. Noo thi on page 28

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
eein, than? Are ye feelin ony stronger?" on page 75
verall, happin a body aat wis stronger than it lookit. Stoppin te di on page 90

2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
vrocht awa getting bigger and stronger wi aa the wechts he’d tae l
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
wery Nae wi iss een. Some o i stronger stoots can make ye ging in th(2019)
b55492332 I micht need summin stronger ??(2019)

General Northern

Nicol, Paul Tales Fae The Doric Side - Her Hauns, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
her hauns, stronger than ony mannie, she wrings o on page 24

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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Stronger an stonger gruws the North wi
hed he said. "I will give you stronger lenses, and Jonsar I can
2 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"Sae Wind, ye think your stronger than me? on page 28

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
. Bad magic fae somewhaur was stronger than hers. She'd left the spe on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
taminated the atmosphere grew stronger yince he began beltin oot the on page 100
Craigy will pull through, eh? stronger than ever" on page 180

2 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
uage an culture in Jamaica is stronger than the same influences fae
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
But bluid is stronger, and the seas grow wide, on page 19

1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
ng. The pulse o the music got stronger. Louder. Quicker. The dance l
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
bound the gither by somehing stronger than jist oor love o comic bo
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
a fuckin tank, even bigger an stronger than me, an she grabs me by m on page 21

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
feelin aw day, which is even stronger than ma Friday Feelin ~a forc on page 36

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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Yer made o stronger stuff than ye thocht, Edith M
ae shove, ah feel like ah’m stronger than ah thocht a wis.
2 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 62 - Cormilligan, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, poetry
But bluid is stronger, an the seas growe wide,
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Ma resolve jist grew stronger, on page 11

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
, until ah thocht, yer made o stronger stuff than that Jeannie Brenn on page 55

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Mary: Niver! I'm stronger than that. on page 27

1 matches

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