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The word 'conservative'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
conservativeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.23615
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.3 6 3
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 29.4 22 7
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 conservative in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
conservative English varieties, bit no ith on page 60

1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
We jist use the word Conservative noodays https://t.co/1ZJHrAzn(2020)
His fellow Scottish Conservative and Unionists colleagues vote(2020)

(South) East Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
system The final fling o the Conservative and Unionist Pairty in the Sc
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
nd is at baith avant garde an conservative at the same time as weel as b
1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
prospect has nou kythit: the Conservative and Unionist Pairty (The Blae
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
cots Pairlament wad a makit a Conservative Wastmeinster government leuk
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
on year wis, Liberals (52) an Conservative (8). The mak up o the SPCB, i
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
n it, 2 Lib-Dems, 1 Labour, 1 Conservative an 1 SNP, we think that says
1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
air as ye’d see a real life Conservative in Scotland the day. No in th
Ah’m nae saying Rangers is Conservative n’ Celtic Labour, n’ SNP
2 matches

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
democratic intellect wis the Conservative Walter Elliot. The Liberal Gl
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
showes the thinkin amang the conservative estaiblishment, bein weel ken on page 102

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
nt the erosion ay traditional conservative values an pontificate aboot h
1 matches

General Central

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Sic a register is forordinar conservative – mair conservative nor the
– mair conservative nor the registers at ye wad u
it wey sic a register maun be conservative. The first haes ti dae wi pit
n expository register maun be conservative is the perception o register
tal stop ava.) For the kynd o conservative writin at’s needit for a ex
13 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e pairt time fitba referee an Conservative Member o Parliamint fir Moray
selt oot, nane o the Scottish Conservative MPs noo seem owre keen tae vo
2 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
The magazine wis a mirra for Conservative (Tory) politics an the affair
1 matches

Puchowski, James Aiths an Affirmations, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Peter Chapman (North Aist, Conservative)
1 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ht chynged their name tae the Conservative Fowks Pairtie in 1915, an in
CFP Conservative Fowks Pairtie Konservative Fo
irtie Konservative Folkeparti Conservative Tories
3 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
esist the warst effecks o the Conservative govrenment.
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
nclude the worst. She's ultra Conservative an a'body shud be greatly con(2020)

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