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The word 'refuses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
refusesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1179
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 refuses in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
her haivers sheu kens gowd an refuses tae quyt. Yaas, thir aye a we on page 142

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
lence, Seelence patient 19541 refuses to spik.
7 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
tae jail onyone in England fa refuses tae tak #Scottish bank poun n(2019)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
week this time last year and refuses tae give up on him now Boyle (2022) twitter link
Peggers He is the fuckin man. Refuses tae go doon the cabaret route (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
man she likes; albeit, gif he refuses to tak hir till be his wyf, h
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
re. But, tae ma annoyance, he refuses tae take his eyes oaff the ro
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
her voice. "She refuses and My Laird says she is a se on page 3

1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
Blackford tells the truth and refuses to be cowed. Hoyle isnae up t (2022) twitter link

@Chazzbat tweeted
hink. A controllin mither wha refuses tae learn tae sign. It's clea(2020)
If she refuses tae answer the questions, Ah (2020)

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