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The word 'deliberate'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deliberateOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91914
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 deliberate in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
pportunities are the result o deliberate policy, or the result o any k
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
t twa days til he burst it - deliberate like - richt in front o mi f on page 35

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ae me but it wis so obviously deliberate. on page 169

1 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
ae me but it wis so obviously deliberate.
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ak is nae accident. This is a deliberate anti-democratic process that on page 49
it reality is dreck. It wis a deliberate attempt tae haud doun Scottis on page 64
scrounge benefits wis jist a deliberate lee, fer aw the evidence tell on page 112

4 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
pt for twa wicked pieces o’ deliberate miscommunication on ma pert.
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an its hard tae say if its a deliberate act ay intimidation or if heâ
1 matches

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e?) the conscious, eydent and deliberate stervin o the puir gin it hai
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
iss o words that is misspellt deliberate like but soondit richt. The t on page 19

2 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
ill survive unless there some deliberate
1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
minds of legislators to make deliberate provision for the voice of na
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
nybody could tak pairt in sic deliberate destruction an cry it sport.
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
@Sol_Stjerne Yer deliberate misunnerstaunin o the equalit(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
@AlbaPartyTime Her testicles (deliberate typo) are everywhere. Europea (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
And there dissect and deliberate on page 41

1 matches

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