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The word 'convert'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
convertOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21411
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
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 convert 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.

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
tae convert - intae a hen-hoose, o aal t on page 17

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
irst kirk here wis biggit tae convert the Picts. This kirk yer sitt
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
wikks ah hiv been ettlin tae convert the internet inta Doric an it(2015)
eA2Wvb so that you can easily convert text straight into our dialec(2017)
t eicht o clock an ettlin tae convert me tae believe in Dhe!(2018)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
A convert tae fresh fruit an veggie
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
telt him. “We’re gaun tae convert some o the hutches intae haun
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
ek intae the job and ah’m a convert. Doon tae the bar for a cappu
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
harlemagne hid a misision tae convert the pagan tribes." on page 14

1 matches

Bleiman, David Lallans 104 - Ae Fond Kush, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
ye'll hae to convert, Rab, soon as ye're able, it' on page 37

2 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
stert a Christian mission an convert the local tribes. As ye micht on page 11

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
[female] sex intill his vaill convert’.
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
he infowar - we just huv tae convert the try. https://t.co/oRxCrZ9 (2022) twitter link

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