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The word 'repent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
repentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7199
ORK - Orkney
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 2
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
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) 109 6 1

Occurrences of repent in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
Gin ye act in haste ye repent at leesure. on page 32

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Repent ye Editors! (Now whit's she w on page 144

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
ike a man that's no willin ti repent, on page 70

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ic foul an unseemly language. Repent, Geordie, repent afore it's o on page 109
which tells me ye will yet repent on page 113

5 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
But if ye repent o aa that on page 112

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
wid wake up and inexplicably repent aw ma many sins. Fur years sh
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
unless thay repent thair cheese an tomatae ways on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
t - alwayis green. But ye'll repent it, on page 33

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
er tae caa tha guid fowk [tae repent], A hae cum fer tae caa sinne on page 9
ell ye thïs, ïf yis dïnnae repent, tha hale lock o yis'll peris on page 93
t thïnk tha dïnnae need tae repent." on page 96
hïs message tae aa nations: 'Repent o yer sïns, an God wull forg on page 112

6 matches

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