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The word 'limit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
limitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42820
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 2
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23.2 9 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) 605.7 1 1
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 limit in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ower the limit. on page 138

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Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ar the liberal staet isno the limit o the politiecal imaginaetion
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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
r, bit wan sixty echt wis her limit. Shö wan da competeeshin on
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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
isur frae the Government, tae limit the wye fowks freely stravaig
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
eein safely spot on the speed limit an then ye catch up on a bobb(2014)

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
it wis jist under the weight limit so a wised chuffed I said I k
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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
ageing brain - um - to the limit, but um - er - read on.' on page 56

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Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
e WiFi, so I’ve set a daily limit on ma phone data so I dinna u
roblem is, I use up the daily limit by dennertime every day. Jist
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General Northern

Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
don said, "this is really the limit." on page 25

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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
t a thirty mile an hour speed limit sign that supportit ane o the
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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"We'll test it tae the limit. on page 28

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
ed in hail or in pairt athoot limit
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ed in hail or in pairt athoot limit o nummers an this hauds guid
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ed in hail or in pairt athoot limit o nummers an this hauds guid
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ed in hail or in pairt athoot limit o nummers an this hauds guid
ation illegal ayont a certain limit in schuil life an in ony soci
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ed in hail or in pairt athoot limit o nummers an this hauds guid
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 125, (self-published 2004) Central, newspaper
ed in hail or in pairt athoot limit o nummers an this hauds guid
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
well said - we have a 20mph limit through elphinstone village a (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
dinnae work as weel. Thers a limit tae whit lenses kin dae. Mind
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
rianism - that there’s nae limit tae whit ye kin achieve if ye
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General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
the space I want. There's nae limit - sae lang as I can howk it on page 72

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Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
ame tae their scrievin or tae limit its circulation.
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
ame tae their scrievin or tae limit its circulation. Mairower, th
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@jax6754 tweeted
thinkin! Should there be time limit tae stop grieving? #bereaveme(2015)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
gits that thae ur cappin yer limit and stoppin ye roamin lik ye
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Donegal (East Donegal)

Watson, Audrey Yarns 3 - The Tay Meetin, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Fermanagh, prose
irly bake. Ther’d a bin nay limit te them buns, plate after pla
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