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The word 'proven'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
provenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81612
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 5
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 proven in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
Proven aul lang syne. on page 31

1 matches

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
* Use teachin weys that hiv proven tae benefit larners, includin
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
rdeenFC @BristolCity Foo mony proven goal scorers are kicking aboo (2020) twitter link

@daleser23 tweeted
@rossandrew_ ana kane. Need a proven manager noo. Dina think blanc(2014)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
been lucky - got aff wi NOT PROVEN. on page 23

1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
a University says “Elk have proven to be pretty adaptable, when
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
vin wis no jist possible, but proven tae wark in monie kenspeckle on page 19

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
t hesp. In actual fact, maist proven lines in Europe sterts aboot on page 56

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
, st. 35-43. Owerset frae the Provençal bi Derrick McClure on page 50

3 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
air recent times it haes been proven that the'r ice in sindry crat
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
ots screivers. The grant haes proven a braw success seein a guid m
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@RickHJohnston tweeted
truggles with the UK having a proven liar as Prime Minister. Poor (2022) twitter link

@pmcm1355 tweeted
e a richt riddy fir ye tae be proven wrang an shown up fir a gowk (2022) twitter link

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