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The word 'conviction'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
convictionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3119
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of conviction 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.

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
e haird work, came a surefire conviction that ah MUST be richt, an tha
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tones gies a richt mellin an conviction tae the braid an equally rich
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Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
it's lackin conviction an em rapidly on page 19
Said we conviction an nae restrictions on page 75

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Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
y the boy spoke wi this great conviction and self-assuredness, even wh
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Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
it eh says, try 'ae match eez conviction but noo the words ur coming l on page 3

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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
company.’ Scanlon sais wae conviction.
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Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
n.’ ah sais, wae remarkable conviction.
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Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
t votit NAW, but no wi muckle conviction, or, atweel, scientive resear
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General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
le it his been argied wi some conviction that James Bridie socht tae s on page 39

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Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
publican tells himsel, athoot conviction, like a white lie tellt til a on page 72

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