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Use in varieties of Scots

destroyin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences87 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of destroyin in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
The Ettercap Destroyin Baffy. on page 75

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
onfused. By what wis his soul destroyin revelation. on page 50
med tae be spent in some soul destroyin callcentre fur a pittance oor on page 85

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
vernment they dinnae like, an destroyin haill swathes o oor planet, i on page 117

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
t rattled the bit in the 60s, destroyin mare than 80% o’ the buildi
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Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
rs - minimum - in some soul destroyin role they’d never, even in
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McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Destroyin’ aw’ my hopes.
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Doric

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
wi the same wounds rippin an destroyin her skin as on me. She has so
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