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The word 'confess'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
confessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.52117
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 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 4
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 2
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 confess in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
rowd tae shame me and make me confess? on page 20

1 matches

Mid Northern B

Robson, Euan Peelie wally, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
in the een. So a jist hid tae confess.
1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
nin' soon yer pinkie. Hiv tae confess I've nivver tried yon eens, I(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
He had tae confess, the truth be telt, on page 27

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
But I'd raither confess ti Lizzie Than ever confess t on page 56

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
h like the circus, Dougie" ah confess tae him. on page 170

1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
hauf a century ago and I must confess the actual location o the fer
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
week, frae Lunnon, and I must confess it's very ponny. She stands o
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
the mither cums forrit for ti confess hir acks. on page 139

1 matches

Pennie, Len Toast Tae The Daft Days, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
me is awfy braw I really must confess
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
gan doon tae Inveraray an’ confess ma guilt an’ yer innocence
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
esk ‘’Understood’’ ah confess. ‘’But what if the great
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
at the heid o Greenock, an I confess, I thocht naebody wad see me. on page 24
stert, an then wis forced tae confess he'd ta'en pairt a month back on page 45

2 matches

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
ck’s dilemma he wid ne’er confess.
1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
I can scarce confess it. on page 35

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Gin yer mou confess that Jesus is Lord and gin ye on page 97

1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
@freckles681 I confess tae enjoying knocking the Leg (2022) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
irKetabchi @TimMorton2 I maun confess I amna ower sure (siccar) wha(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
Noo A hay tay confess I never met Hashter but I did on page 44

1 matches

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