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The word 'innocence'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
innocenceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41815
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of innocence in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n, in a wye, Ah envied ye aat innocence - aat blessed ignorance. on page 22
follaes is a tale o childhood innocence an foo bairns jist jak folk f on page 63

2 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE: will thon last? Does it cove on page 23

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
comin tae him an guidness an innocence bearin the gree. Nae maitter
1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
I lay in bairnheid innocence on page 129

1 matches

Edinburgh

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
For aa 't's innocence on page 98

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
€™ confess ma guilt an’ yer innocence bit I wis telt it would be ta
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
lum tae this day protests his innocence o’ blame fir this incident,
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Pouerfu as only innocence can be, on page 61
at I coud drink ma fill o yer innocence. on page 131

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ed, cogie in haun, for in her innocence she kent nocht aboot sodgers on page 46

1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
yer innocence plain as can be. on page 21

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Nae bield for innocence, nae hame for peace. on page 31

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Ye pit your innocence on trial, Mary. on page 35

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
me." Agg lukked the picter o innocence is the rammie gat stertit in on page 67

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
oner, aw the time claimin his innocence an bein ignored. He wis guilt

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Tuk Innocence intae a fiel, on page 56

1 matches

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