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The word 'petition'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
petitionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
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 petition in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
see a lot o youse sharein the petition an no signin it. hou are we s (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
er on the Fittie Bar menu! Ma petition in the bar won, apart fae yon(2019)

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Speugs' Petition
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Ah went an wrote a petition against school meals. At firs on page 88

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
There wiz a petition or a letter. Some bitty of pa
1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
o' my shin at the idea of my Petition for the poor naked Falls of B
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
ey tried tae persuade him tae petition fur a reprieve but Renwick sa

@Cobradile94 tweeted
Gie is petition a sign an help stap TERREG fa(2019)

@Chazzbat tweeted
ort That's a form tweet fae a petition. Ah didnae screive it, Ah jis(2020)

@changed_days tweeted
@_AVK72 There must be aner petition due on this surely? There's y (2021) twitter link

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