A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'widened'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
widenedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4119
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 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 widened in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ch aesier since the corsh wis widened, and thurs a lot less tourist on page 86

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
an da rodd is widened on page 40

1 matches

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
haed seen it. Da trow’s een widened at da sight o it and turned h
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n tribute band." Ronnie's een widened as he clickit on the photie t on page 55

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ent o itsel as aye the sunder widened atween rich an puir in the ea
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
Establishments seem tae have widened up and the lockdoon did seem (2020) twitter link

West Central

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
Abby's eyes widened as the others walked e'er.
m stated. The creature's eyes widened at hearin that.
2 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
Mr. MacNeil's eyes widened an he stood up. on page 43

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
nature kicten heels. His eyes widened. He wis wearin a dark blue sh on page 58
a horizons wur well and truly widened. He said the Irn Bru carnival on page 87

2 matches

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