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The word 'destined'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
destinedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 destined in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
e kitchen - the wife wis aye destined tae win. on page 32
wis noo fear and pain. Wis I destined tae nivver see Bella again? on page 72

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
war aa its ain. His feet war destined tae wauk at the tail o the pl
1 matches

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
fur Granny, piles eh palettes destined fur greatness an three coal b on page 7

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
int in tryin tae succeed; Yur destined tae be jist like me, a Coke c on page 15
cannae help boays like us are destined tae be the pun ae the system' on page 19
ae the high caste and ah wis destined tae furever slumber in the lo on page 59

3 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
danMcCallion @CoreyHook1 defo destined fir the top in the fashion st (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t ma life wis shite an ah wis destined tae spend it wi ma nae pals d on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Destined tae stake a mark forby, on page 76

1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
"Is he destined for an esquire?" on page 3

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
@Thuckster__ Soonds like thur destined fer big adventures. Guid on t(2020)

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