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The word 'factor'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
factorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.33321
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 32.7 10 5
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of factor in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The laird, the factor on page 13

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Trowie time flees an aa, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
fit. Hit has a UV protection factor o 300 so a trow can geng oot
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ce, pickin up fower bottles o factor 30 an bungin em oan tap o aa on page 40

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
hames – itherwise the pain factor wad stert electronically. Cri
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
bittie closer. The Laird’s factor hid came that mornin an teen
ce. The worst thing aboot the factor takin aa her goods and chattl
. A big leather beuk that the factor said wid mak a fyowe shillins
, until this very day fin the factor hid teen fae her the Holy Bib
rd, the Laird’s son and the factor an cursed them foriver-and-a-
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Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2021) Doric - Fraserburgh
e Stanley partridge the motor factor

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Added "Pey the factor" to the Doric Phrases A-Z: ca(2014)

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
t at the tale's hinneren; the factor Erchie Thomson; the orraman a on page 124

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Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
at the tale’s hinneren; the factor Erchie Thomson; the orraman a
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
gairdener, or the factor, or ony estate worker, it end
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The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
r betters. I stell get cringe factor ten at thes memory. For some
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@72redz1903 tweeted
itten for us. Nae plan B is a factor (2022) twitter link
ve look like? Broon is a real factor, can ye sack him as part o th (2022) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
the place. He wis taen on as factor for the Duke o Sutherland, ta
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Templeton's, there the common factor o a want o sentimentality or,
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
the less the'll be the cringe factor.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
that sums up the Scots cringe factor wi the lines,
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
everyone likes the feel good factor - and after all its not the (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
An then, factor in this fae the notorious VoW on page 24
nd ye cin still hear the day. Factor in that hou Gaelic his its ai on page 63

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@d_anderson878 tweeted
! Gin there wisnae the cringe factor aboot it bein 'oary' it wid g(2020)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
er conditions are the decidin factor the day though, so ah boot fu
1 matches

General Central

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Toon Factor, I wis, six times, tae the co on page 43

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@jax6754 tweeted
ecide wheither tae watch xtra factor as you are ni longer oan it! (2014)
@carolineflack1 oan getting x-factor. @JeffBrazier Pls gie both a (2015)
nd Caroline! Canae wait fir x-factor tae return tae the telly! Ric(2015)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
emic, but isn't Natural Law a factor at some point not Moral Relat(2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Hiddlie settin wi a settin factor
1 matches

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