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The word 'douts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doutsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5189
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 17.7 7 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 65.5 5 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 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 douts in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
eena Blackhall’s. Ah hae ma douts.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
i some genres. To say there's douts aboot the plausibility o the on page 95

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
cots disna hae. The raeson he douts he haes "nae uther choiss" is
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
isbet wesna the wumman ti hae douts or
wie, mirk bothie wi sairious douts anent hiz sair
2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
Mrs Linton douts she disna need ane for every
an back time third Mrs Linton douts she’d as weel gie up.
wins hame fae the ospital an douts the hoose coud dae wi a lick
3 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
air nir mensk, Tittie hed nae douts. Ti hir the Bret Navyne wes t on page 4

1 matches

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ople the glens. But ah hae ma douts. Plans tae repeople the clear
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
ifetime — but they haed nae douts it wis their duty tae prepare
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
rds, an whit's mair, I hae my douts gin you ken thaim aither!" An on page 26
lassie," said Alison, wi some douts in her heid, as she mindit Ju on page 44

2 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ome day he will, for I hae my douts aboot yon young Reverend Hew on page 24
Gif John Broun had ony douts that dark mornin when they le on page 27
a sow] aboot Muirkirk had ony douts but that she had been doubly on page 73

3 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
guid likenesses. But I hae my douts. Ae drawin looks fine, on page 20

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
Sheena Blackhall's. Ah hae ma douts. on page 56

1 matches

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