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The word 'honesty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
honestyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82619
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 18 7 4
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 honesty in Corpus

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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

1 matches

Mid Northern A

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

3 matches

Aberdeen

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

2 matches

General Northern

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

(South) East Central

Allan, Alasdair Lallans 102 - Defenestration, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
hin lik yon. Jamie hed, in aw honesty, thocht Mr Gowanlock wes crac on page 85

1 matches

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

1 matches

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

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
dmired the wumans passion and honesty. Oh, they Chinese motherfucke
1 matches

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
1 matches

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
2 matches

West Central

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

1 matches

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
1 matches

Dundee

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

1 matches

Ayrshire

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

1 matches

General Central

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

1 matches

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
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
! Thank you fir yir openness, honesty & postin on youtube esp as #P(2015)

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

South West (Galloway)

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

1 matches

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

1 matches

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