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The word 'voting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
votingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42816
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 48.4 4 1
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 voting in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
ul being unfaithful and peach voting Tory. (2021) twitter link
nna let anyone bully you over voting. Your choice x (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Nae voting Aye until I get a pamphlet be(2014)
Dinna fret aboot #voting the day, gie Lyn a relaxing k(2019)

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
And yon multiple choice voting system didnae help, did it? F
let ither folk dae the actual voting so we can then moan aboot the
I did try voting the last time, but I didnae f
3 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
e an affa phone bill the kids voting on Big Brither(2020)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
don't understand the Scottish voting system. But I do understand u (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
cht say. Ah've re-added ma No voting pal on Facebook, for stairter
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
to bear it in mind when your voting next week! (2021) twitter link
urghpaper defo a big no after voting yes the last time - time to (2021) twitter link
ur man like me would consider voting snp! (2021) twitter link

West Central

@annieones tweeted
lping her haud that big heavy voting paper- someone said you sneak (2021) twitter link
lping her haud that big heavy voting paper- someone said you sneak (2021) twitter link

General Central

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
tae declare their intention o voting Na an certainly the Yes poste
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
cotland-Daily-Record-Scottish-Voting-Intention-ONE.pdf)
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
er position when it comes tae voting tae let poor weans gae withoo(2020)
g that MPs cannae abstain fae voting. They're paid tae mak decisio(2020)
"Cheering him on" by actively voting aginst his appeal tae feed po(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
Get yer voting fingers oot!! PEEPEE NEEDS OO(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
where she explicity said that voting for indy supporting parties w (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
er position when it comes tae voting tae let poor weans gae withoo(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
Even cannae dae the same oan voting paper with ma broom!(2020)
1980! Even noo, a wid eat the voting paper afore puttin’ a X ??(2020)
utb_smith Nae, winnae touch a voting paper fur ‘em!? Even that po(2020)
@AUOBALBA Abolish oor voting rights... (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Voting shuts on Sunday midnicht! Fir(2020)