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The word 'gove'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
goveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41410
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 gove in Corpus

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Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
is ony better. I seen Michael Gove on breakfast telly the ither
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
smuirit in hinnie the muin'll gove in the winnock wunnerin oot o on page 3

2 matches

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
ollum, The Grinch and Michael Gove.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
a wee snifter - as for mikey gove - laddies no got a scooby lo (2020) twitter link

West Central

@annieones tweeted
you'd stop a referendum & now Gove is saying ye canny! I demand (2021) twitter link
you'd stop a referendum & now Gove is saying ye canny! I demand (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
en dae, an she cudna halp bit gove intae thaim. Whaur they sud b
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Midnicht, gove intae The lift: on page 98

1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ormaig @80_mcswan The idea of Gove pleasing Cummings is gein me (2020)
@celticwitch1995 Gove really should gie up the coke(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
@clmbie Nae luck Gove an George Who!(2020)
State a Gove an “George Who?” tryin tae (2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
There's Gove oan the news again sayin '80 (2021)

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