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The word 'necessity'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
necessityOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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 necessity in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
d's pairt o modem liveen - a necessity tae me. on page 34

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
it aw birlit roun the central necessity o critical thinkin. A've been on page 15
his duin real weel oot o the necessity fer separate forms o wards fe on page 18
micht sey somethin aboot the necessity tae tackle poverty an problem on page 111
ns hae clearer veesions o the necessity fer mair green pouer, Scotlan on page 140

4 matches

General Central

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
’s report o 1793: ‘On the Necessity and Means of Annihilating the
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
the necessity o spikkin a language.
1 matches

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