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The word 'destiny'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
destinyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 destiny in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
tion’, the richt yin wiz ‘Destiny’ an fitivver cannel burned
tae gyang. It wisna fate nor destiny aboot which little can be dee
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
in she wiz sendin him tae his destiny. Daavid hid left wi the curta
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
Reinhold Niebuhr's Nature and Destiny of Man? on page 57

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
ause we dinna control wur ain destiny – an’ we’re no prepared
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
™re the architects ay oor ain destiny, aw ay us, ye’ve just goat
1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
guide her frae this destiny. on page 35

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
taundart Scots on the Stane o Destiny insteid o Staundart Inglis, w on page 56

1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
This destiny knitted
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
THE STONE OF DESTINY on page 28
It's destiny, and England's shame on page 29

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
wi them the Stane o Destiny. on page 29
The true Stane o Destiny on page 77

2 matches

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