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The word 'legitimate'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
legitimateOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 legitimate in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
and Germany, and pairt o wur legitimate language - replete wi its own
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
No' one to miss a legitimate business opportunity, I decid on page 19
ersel. Still, at least he had legitimate proof he wis skint this eftir on page 45

2 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
they say feelin that bit less legitimate than if it wis said in Englis
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
olds an’ ye could hae some legitimate banter wi’ them, bit we, in
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
the Pairliament is the hame o legitimate authority? The fowk that cont
ls tae be pairt o a naitural, legitimate, “democratic” order. An t
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
es the fae, an maks oniething legitimate tae defeat thaim, syne like a
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Harper, Emma Promoting the Scots Leid, (The Scottish Parliament 2021) Central - Stranraer, government
Scots an aw its byleids as a legitimate leivin leid an tak tent o the
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