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The word 'witnesses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
witnessesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41810
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
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 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 3
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 witnesses in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
startin wi Jerusalem'. Ye're witnesses tae sic things. Sae A'll sen on page 121

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Afore God an aa these witnesses
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ce staff counter signed it as witnesses. Her affairs now in order Mab
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ething tae dae wi Jehovah’s Witnesses or the Hare Krishna mob, mais
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
l year for false notaries and witnesses, as dailie experience did wit
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
un on tae note that 95% o the witnesses had niver been cawed. But in
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ised there wis a haill raft o witnesses set tae gie evidence agin the on page 107
is substantiated by a wheen o witnesses, they were aw fund guilty. Tw on page 128

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
an she gasped. “In front o witnesses.” She leukit aroon, sae fau
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
Altho ither witnesses, sic as Donald Macleod o Comh on page 5
bound. The Committee grees wi witnesses that, athoot that support, th on page 7
ions fur Scots education frae witnesses and in screivit probation. It on page 51
aks tent o the probation frae witnesses unnerscorin the need fur fina on page 61
several witnesses that athoot extra resoorces, on page 62

5 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
he grund or subject, alang wi witnesses, an gie intae his or her haun on page 52

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ot intae the audience - "are witnesses." on page 146

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
micht say nooadays, credible witnesses.As sic things cam either fae
1 matches

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