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The word 'deeds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deedsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.53524
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 488.3 3 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 4
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 3
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 deeds in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Bad deeds, dark deeds. on page 12

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Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Bad deeds, dark deeds. on page 75

2 matches

Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Scalloway Castle, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, poetry
Aa’ da horrible deeds dat happened athin
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
tt ye tak wi yer fadders' ill deeds. They did e murtherin an ee d on page 101

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Vrocht ill, fur ill-deeds anely guid
1 matches

Cormack, Liam Hallaeen, (The Gaudie 2019) Doric - Banff, poetry
Hello, up deein Satan's deeds.
1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
h, influenced his thochts and deeds in the ither areas in which h on page 125

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
h, influenced his thochts and deeds in the ither areas in which h
1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
tae kindly deeds
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Tell o fabled deeds he'd done in ilk distant toon on page 15

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
his, my ain laund, miscaad my deeds, And locked me in the juggs. on page 10

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
see their words backed up by deeds,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
unionist pairties is sayin in deeds. The
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
hin less nor gowd. Actions an deeds is the anelie gowd they hiv l
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
hir guidman efter his dochtie deeds o killin Heezlebrae an ithers on page 139

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
d Forest that he performt the deeds o ‘gallantry and devotion t
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Mindin on Willie McIlvanney, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Bellshill, blog
han his neebur, except bi his deeds - an that, even then, it wis
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
these guid wirds o oors intae deeds. Preach the Gospel, the manni
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
œyou’re known for your good deeds. Please be strong now. Beatri
ayed, karma only attaches tae deeds duin wi intent.
2 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ur the maist vivid. Ma shyte deeds thrust towards iz in slow mot on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
needit tae juidge her mair by deeds nor words. She cuist her perf on page 33

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
ch insteid o the shirra coort deeds, or general register o deeds on page 40

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Your deeds are mair foul than your wirds on page 32

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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Inspector, wi its theme o ill-deeds in a smaw toun, no a million
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
cote Sheil herdins. The title deeds tae
1 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@AidanReilly6 nae deeds the nite #hertsstopped(2012)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
o the deeds o each democrat openin each g on page 77

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Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
such dastardly deeds on page 36

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Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
He sang o great deeds
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
hae performed mair mireculous deeds. on page 2

1 matches

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