A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'persist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
persistOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.487
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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 persist in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
me will be cumman fur rumours persist. on page 27

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
idwey, for them folk they wid persist. on page 78

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
me will be cumman fur rumours persist on page 153

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Grun fyte like sna, frost dis persist,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Eemis Stane 1 - Ane Dialog betwix King James VI, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, script
e spak. Why dae ye Hielanders persist wae yer Erse? Huv ye not the on page 11

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
s o much o the divisions that persist in Jamaica. An although the m
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its
1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
persist in time.
1 matches

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