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The word 'protests'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
protestsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11711
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 9.8 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 protests in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Student protests makin news on page 194

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
een could see intae hers. The protests fae the twa cells silenced. . on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
‘’What’s this?’’ he protests. Aw dazed and huddin the enve
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
there should b more of these protests - we should not be in tier 3 (2021) twitter link
vin that - time tae get some protests planned at the east lothian c (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
e Vigil wis the focus o monie protests an meetins. Fae the aff there on page 104

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
minibus. Callum tae this day protests his innocence o’ blame fir
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
‘’No, not at all’’ he protests. While he prepares his specia
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
no let me through.’ Pearcey protests, pointlessly.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
night. . .’ Pearcey meekly protests afore takin the note aff him.
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Street protests in Brystól.
here is unrest. Muckle street protests i the soothron city o Brystó
thron city o Brystól follaed protests i the caipital city o Londono
on sicht at Britysh political protests, wis seen by monie as yit mai
4 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
not gonnae take it any mair. Protests open international eyes, the (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
re #mineapolis #georgesfloyd #protests @TheNational @kmckenna63 @Chr(2020)