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The word 'justify'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
justifyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3119
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 justify in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
es tae me, fir I really canna justify buyin dem. (She says wi a Wat(2021)
agine goin tae yun length tae justify racism!(2021)
ae bide in bed da day...I kin justify it noo I'm sure!(2021)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ks about the cost so need tae justify this mare!(2017)

West Central

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
int government inactivity tae justify this dumfoonerin absence o on
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
o them made eneugh siller tae justify him bidin here. Bein an airti on page 113

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
n fae McNulty’s attempt tae justify his incontrovertible place in
1 matches

General Central

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
folk that wid justify adoptin the sindry meisures t
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
we stert tae feel a need tae justify the claim at we are, efter aw
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ns @VirginActiveUK If you can justify the £'s comin out yir bank c(2015)

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