Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'widen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

widen	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4	13	8
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	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	9.1	2	2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	8	6	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 widen in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
as muckle as we laek, we can widen it as muckle as we laek. So w
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
s, Neil wished his wife could widen her wee bourach o freens, an
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
it, yon bit far ye've got yon widen boats lying aboot is far I us(2018)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
He sits slumped intae a blue widen airmchair wae his hands in hi on page 179

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
that’s disguised as a dark widen cabinet. Openin the hing up a
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
limbs, heart speeds up, eyes widen. Efter five minutes, it reach on page 3

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
anyfin but the flair. Ma eyes widen when ah realise he's scrivin on page 7

1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
The gowden point started tae widen as Tam got nearer tae it. Noo on page 48

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
nyfink but the flair. Ma eyes widen when ah realise he's scrivin on page 8
he wooden table. Dante's eyes widen. on page 40

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
n lessens, the doactor's eyes widen. on page xx
Mr Gregory's eyes widen. 'Oh,' he says. 'I won't pry. on page 117

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
ned a German dive bomber an a widen streecher thigither. Allooin on page 65

1 matches