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The word 'highlight'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
highlightOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81614
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 highlight in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
wanted more material that wid highlight the Orkney trials and contrib on page 34

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The highlight o the whole affair's the fina on page 29

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ae twa feet each, bit da real highlight a da night wis ta push dir ma on page 93

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
A voar highlight is frogs gadderin in da loch
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Da highlight o my week eenoo is da Radio S (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
be served separately) - the highlight o ivvery Christmas denner as
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
happy and humbled today, the highlight being Derek Mcinnes takin the (2020) twitter link
new season starting wid be a highlight especially first game agin th (2020) twitter link
ians Cerys on a Sunday is the highlight of the week for this family, (2020) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
@LouiseNicol1 th highlight o th weekend!(2012)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
r. Opportunities are taken to highlight the Charter in speeches given
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
allion thanx again guys n the highlight 2 nite wis the pint danny bot (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Lucy Lock Doon, (Greenock Telegraph 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
l aw be gein it laldy and the highlight of ma week wint be a trip tae
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
tlety may huv only served tae highlight the issue as ah notice her ga
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
as won the Gorl Crish Twitter Highlight o the day wi sic a storer o a(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
ory commissioned by @gtcs tae highlight the importance o Scots: https (2020) twitter link