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The word 'relent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
relentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 relent in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
noo mither nature at last dis relent, she pit fear intae us that w
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"If yae sae so, Aldo" ah half relent. on page 38

1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
n, it luiks like Murray wulna relent. It's ane o thae 'ye haed yei on page 139

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Ah relent tae his discreet demand and s
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
waiy, but thinkin oan it, ah relent, orderin a sly dram ay Macall
1 matches

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