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Use in varieties of Scots

adversity Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2 1.5 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences74 1 0 1 0 1
Number of authors6 3 1 1 1

Occurrences of adversity in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
um an thrawnness tae owercome adversity. God had blessed her as weel, on page 66

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Mary: Adversity binds us ticht. on page 35

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Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
Though adversity/absence micht scunner them, i
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
that ‘‘aduersitie ws vex [adversity fashes us]’ forby the inten
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Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
d has been said many times - adversity brings oot great loyalty fae (2020) twitter link

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
der's little grace ithoot adversity.) on page 19

1 matches

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
hefts an, baetims, personal adversity. The ivryday dusnae mean hit on page 13

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