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honesty Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 8.7 9 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences2417 6 0 1 0 0
Number of authors17 13 3 1

Occurrences of honesty in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
n sang an national claes, wir honesty, wir leids an laws - sae hoo on page 77

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
her jest an wis ta'en wi her honesty an smeddum. Jennet glanced at on page 26

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
mired the wuman's passion and honesty. Oh, they Chinese motherfucke on page 54
trip tae the room. But in aw honesty it feels as if ah'm walkin th on page 178

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Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
an they did it wi an honesty on page 95

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Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
methin, preachin tae me aboot honesty? Ye're jist a sappie-heidit w on page 19

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
It's oor honesty that cums shine-in through on page 72

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ad, Hughie," said the angel. "Honesty's the best policy." on page 40

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Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
aun dae sae. The principles o honesty and humanity demand thon o us on page 4

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
t minds him, an anither is ‘honesty’. Ae reflectioun is that th
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Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
dmired the wumans passion and honesty. Oh, they Chinese motherfucke
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
ndid. The irony o the bunch o Honesty flouers bein chucked frae the
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McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ss o sowel-searchin an brutal honesty that they wull need gin they
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ch tae gar fowk mislippen the honesty an accuracy o his reportin, t
oniewey an for-bye thon, the honesty an accuracy o the bouk o his
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@jax6754 tweeted
! Thank you fir yir openness, honesty & postin on youtube esp as #P(2015) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
fession and ah kin say wae aw honesty that the only fowk wha ken wh(2021) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Honesty's the Best Policy on page 48
comes te affairs o the hairt, honesty's aye the pest policy." on page 51
"Weel...myn fit Ah said aboot honesty bein the best policy - it's on page 57

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ll believe, though, Dod, that honesty pays - " began the priest, bi on page 108

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@cligeey tweeted
Honesty is the best policy aboot £14(2020) search twitter

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
lier times wis set alicht fur honesty. on page 86

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