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The word 'acceptin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
acceptinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41815
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 acceptin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
r bairns grew up kennin ye an acceptin ye, Jimmy - luvin ye as weel on page 22
Jack noddit, acceptin the truth o her wirds, an let on page 89

2 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
cceptance speech! She's ainly acceptin a blooper version o the edit! (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e goat came easy tae me? That acceptin a life ae poverty wis the eas on page 21

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
said the stepsister, "an I'm acceptin yer proposal. Ye're ma man no on page 86

1 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
kent the warld ower fer bein acceptin o fowk frae aw nations an bac
ey would a nation wha are sae acceptin o ithers be sae cruel tae the
2 matches

West Central

@annieones tweeted
es an mammies were brought up acceptin misogyny(as i wis tae, tae a (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
f connin the government intae acceptin there's jist the ae wey o dae on page 37

1 matches

Edinburgh

Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
teaches a vailuable lesson in acceptin whitever grasp o the leid ye
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
She noddit, acceptin his apology. “Wait on me,â€
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
acceptin the penne receipt on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'I'm no acceptin that,' answert Kate. on page 23

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
get acceptin gifts fae some unnamed fowk o
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
hinder end represent a shift, acceptin, awbeit wi dowie hert, the do
1 matches

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