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The word 'warrant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
warrantOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91914
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 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of warrant in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
if da bastard comes back wi a warrant https://t.co/fv5QH8OmM0(2021)

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
in att iss lad's deen att wid warrant daith. Sae A'll gie him a whe on page 119

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
tho she wisna a loon an dinna warrant a fancy education. She thocht
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
“I’s warrant yer granny disna ken a rhyme
“I’s warrant Mrs Scott’s on a diet,” M
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
y'? Weel, wi sicna Scripteral warrant Ah'll ti mi tale... on page 72

1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
ll be safe fae sin an herm, a warrant they're elected, better than on page 10

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
rch, right enough. Even hud a warrant. Reason tae believe... on page 1

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
aw they ither men, an' Ah'll warrant there's nae heat fur them. So on page 11
them whan they wis oot. Ah'll warrant that His Mither hid mony a sl on page 12

2 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A'll warrant, then, they'll no complain
A'll warrant ye, they'll niver get
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
eemed close enough tae us tae warrant asking - ever went. Ah wis t
1 matches

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ruesome ower fast, but A’se warrant this is a new phase o Scotlan
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
ces in Issue #2 o Eemis Stane warrant the same treatment. There's n on page 3

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
latinate vocabular athout the warrant o an oreiginal;
1 matches

General Ulster

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
m on, hit bis brave an sauf A warrant yis. We hae tae gae there ilk
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
"A warrant ye thïs: nae proafit ïs wee on page 76
ïs man haes daen naethin tae warrant bein püt tae deith. Sae A'll on page 109

2 matches

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