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Use in varieties of Scots

certainty Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.1 4.5 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences106 3 0 1 0 0
Number of authors8 4 3 1

Occurrences of certainty in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
or the Covenant wi a fearless certainty founded on the supreme will o on page 34
speedily in peace and in the certainty o the love ap protection o Al on page 36

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Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
ally ken wi a decent amoont o certainty anent this kenspeckle chiel.
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
’ he sais wae the degree ay certainty only those deep in the throes
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ark, he will though. A fuckin certainty.
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Facebook link ( 2022) Central
first o us tae niver err wis, certainty, nae woman.

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
in hungry smug self certainty. on page 10

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Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
gs wir less fixed and cast in certainty, less forecastable, as the up
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@72redz1903 tweeted
ful of diversity, looking for certainty (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
dan he kent, felt wi absolute certainty, at Robbie wis deid. His neph on page 60

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