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Use in varieties of Scots

persuade Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.5 4.3 9.6 9.9 5.8 10.9 0
Number of occurrences178 6 1 1 1 0
Number of authors14 7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of persuade in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
ad tae threap awfie haird tae persuade them that there wis nae sic p on page 6

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
an. As yit again he tries tae persuade me tae droap an E. Another pr on page 80

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Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
true or no it wis enough tae persuade the folks that this wis the d
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he halpit his granfaither tae persuade Surinder an April tae at leas
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
He’d somehow managed tae persuade Tracey tae gie him her pal’
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
n agin himsel. They tried tae persuade him tae petition fur a reprie

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
Cameron tried tae persuade them tae join in his intentio

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@Douglas4Moray @scotgov Persuade the overpaid players tae dona(2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
toon an Ah'v aiven munuged te persuade Billy te jine ma theatre club on page 36

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
flirtin wi Joyce an tryin te persuade her aat she cudna live wi'oot on page 14

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
's the anely thing that micht persuade him. Ye ken foo fikey it is t
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
. That and nae being able tae persuade targets tae sign. Very disapp (2022) twitter link
@stonefish100 Jist got tae persuade Mrs D, but, having suggested (2020) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
ft half, workin Monday. Maybe persuade @LouiseNicol1 tae come n a #1(2013) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
en years I hiv been tryan tae persuade folk tae caal him be his prop
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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
e weel, Meenie ey manages tae persuade me her wye o tinkin is da bes
1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
led JW kept knockin’ ma door persuade me tae join ‘em. Nae keen & (2021) twitter link