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The word 'fluent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fluentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82613
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.6 8 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 2
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fluent in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
He's a ferfil fluent speaker bit he often lets her on page 55

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
mair sure, mair fluent an aware, mair apt on page 19

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Fluent in the tung at wi ken best. on page 32

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
es insteed o writin the wirds fluent. A masel, tho, writes hale no
at it's faur aesier tae write fluent, an sorts some ither difficul
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
be kent that she is a fairly fluent Frisian speaker an that she w
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ns cuid necessarily hae sic a fluent crack wi ane anither but caus
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
w? Awbodie kens that incomers fluent in Scots haes tae be acceppit
is on the grunds that they're fluent in English.
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
NP, said that bairns shuid be fluent in baith Scots an English an
it that maist Scots pupils is fluent an articulate in thair ain la
2 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
We nae second thought in thi fluent an flawless on page 73

1 matches

Edinburgh

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
pik it - though the nummer o fluent spikkers, an o thaim that yai on page 107

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
alfare officer she had tae be fluent in the twa main leids o the r
hir fowk. Be the time she wis fluent eneuch tae spick wi thaim, wh
ornin, an whan they heard his fluent, though fremit, Chinese, they
he side o the road, beggin in fluent Chinese tae be tane back tae
4 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
"Ur ye fluent then? Is it hard tae learn?" on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
s impact in creatin, at pace, fluent speakers o the leid, that acc on page 34
s are tae leave the schuil as fluent and confident Gaelic speakers on page 41

4 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
nt o career opportunities for fluent speakers o Community leids wi
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
an her man an they’re baith fluent Scots speakers.(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
brannigan @Debdev2 I jalouse "fluent" is aiblins tearin the erse o (2015) twitter link