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The word 'identify'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
identifyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82616
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of identify in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
0, an he wis gyaain ta try an identify da spot whaar shü gude ashor on page 55
s i da back o a van. 'Can you identify these sheep?' da policeman ak on page 73

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I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
maist pairt Shetlanders dunna identify wi Lowland Scots as represent on page 20

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Bittie aboot oor Doric dialect, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Inverurie, blog
piece aat youngir folk canna identify wi. Language is constantly ev
1 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ible empathy, ah can suddenly identify wi, acause ah've spent a wee
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
t you but I would struggle to identify the language which I now spea
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Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 73 - Wrack, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
We maun identify whit remains. on page 77

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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ence of people that you could identify by name. Call them ancestors,
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General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
g live. This will help us tae identify dwaiblie places in oor record on page 16

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
aa ower the warld, ettlin tae identify guid practice in leid hainin, on page 56

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Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
spaces that mair an fowk can identify wi, wi independence as pairt
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Sic as I can identify tae jist extrapolate an inven(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Dickey, William Yarns 3 - Annual General Report, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, prose
it mair an mair difficult tae identify the serial nummers.
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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
r that is tha yin thing A can identify wae, an it identifies me as a
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