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The word 'defineetion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
defineetionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5156
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 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 defineetion in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
2. Dialect haes nae defineetion.
tten form." Dat’s as guid a defineetion o da public concept o dialect
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ither - yon's the the verra defineetion o an abusive marriage. on page 102

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
, they maun be sleazeballs by defineetion, spies or fixers - an wha wi
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
Scotland, and askit "is that defineetion cleir eneuch tae tak accoont on page 9
lic communities that meet the defineetion and requirements o airts o li on page 16
ium education comes athin the defineetion o schuil education, and that on page 37
lic education comes unner the defineetion o schuil education, statin th on page 38
fur tae provide a meaningful defineetion and suffeecient claritie fur on page 46
Also on pages 47
6 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
fore ae pynt: a sonnet hes a defineetion, an whan a sonnet isna marrae on page 91

3 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
hundreds of years” in this defineetion the modren tradeetion o writi
ght”, the Creative Scotland defineetion o a language isna at aw the s
2 matches

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