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The word 'percent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
percentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92214
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 percent in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Irish linen, wan hunder percent, on page 115

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
up in the daark. An ere's ten percent aff aa dog beds." on page 63

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
dual carriagewey is a hunner percent environmentally freendly. For
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
p wis gaunnae gie me a twenty percent reduction because it had a bl on page 53
her fingers, an ah'm a hunner percent sure she wis wan ae the wans on page 169

6 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
erator. Ah wiz never a hunner percent sure he wiz paying enough att
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ukit Tibetan. Nine point five percent o the population o Delhi wis
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'I'm one hundred percent sure. Same case, same kind, e on page 28

1 matches

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
nceit on thair merits. Fuftie percent o the vote is nott orr oniebo
till summbodie wins at fuftie percent. The ugsumm thing about this
2 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
@AnDeoraiRua @molach95 Hunner percent! (2020) twitter link

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
Scots phrase while wan hunner percent reservin the richt tae critic on page 4

1 matches

gov.scot Biggin a strang future for Gaelic an Scots, (Scottish Government 2022) Central, government
an pairts whaur there a guid percent o Gaelic spikkers. Hit taks i
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
hit is spoke bi a significant percent o thaim thit bide there. Haud
na area an for tae speir whit percent o the population wad hae tae
happen whaur there a heicher percent o Gaelic spikkers. The policy
3 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
votes i Scotland, an a hunner percent o the saets (though it maun b
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
eichty percent bi descent, on page 58

1 matches

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