A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sprightly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1 0 0 0 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences52 0 0 0 2 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of sprightly in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
if in the possession of some sprightly and accomplished editor of th on page 69

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
his step - never seen him so sprightly likes (2020) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The joys o' youth sae sprightly on page 6
Where a' but yince a sprightly chiel on page 11

2 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
r, an the watter was right an sprightly on ma skin. It was a quare fe
1 matches

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