Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'assure'

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Use in varieties of Scots

assure	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.2	20	12
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	17.4	3	3
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	17.7	4	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	17.9	7	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee	10.6	1	1
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	1	1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 assure 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.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
r da big jobs laek dat. I can assure you dir no lyin aboot da plac on page 73

1 matches

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
body feels bad for Dad, I can assure you that there was indeed ple

@tattooedselkie tweeted
I wid juist lik tae assure you aa dat dis chicken, avoca(2021)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
'mannie F an ithirs assure ye folks on page 133

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
ck said. "At's fine bit I can assure athing is a richt. I thocht i
1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
wid ait for meals bit, I can assure
assure you, you will see a lot bette
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Aye" ah assure thum. "Jist went doon the wro on page 78
"You're awrite, man" ah assure him. "But this cunt oan the o on page 135
He looks at Craig sae assure ae himself. "Ah bet yae he's on page 137

3 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
�Aw in gid time, son’’ ah assure him. ‘’ Here, kin ah lit
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ll the very best - and i can assure u it great to c all the commi (2021) twitter link
FC @SaltSportsLive guys a kin assure yous theres nae chance o that (2020) twitter link
at open grass parks n a kin assure you no body will stop me - a (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
sa May went oot o her wey tae assure the Irish that there'll be na on page 144

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
whatever she hus said ah kin assure you, eh? it wis self-defence�
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
oke. Ah laugh anaw tae try an assure the lassie that it is, even t on page 22

1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
eldwark - an wi the need tae assure Gleswegians at Ah wasnae takk on page 9

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
ult didny look that??pretty A assure ye ??. ?????????????? https:/(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ologist and its best bet, a assure ye. The difference between co(2020)