A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'prevailed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
prevailedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central
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 prevailed in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
For hid they won an baith prevailed? on page 20

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
pit tae sea again, bit sense prevailed an hame he cam, an the trip c
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
laugh m8 - common sense has prevailed at last though - lots oh fol (2021) twitter link

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
iven ablow decks in chains, I prevailed on thaim tae fear nocht an be on page 31
ch. But the spirit o the Lord prevailed, an in the kintraeside, clach on page 39
on' o 1689 - sense an sanity prevailed ance mair. In the months efte on page 62

3 matches

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