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The word 'quaistion'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
quaistionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6215
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 138.1 13 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 quaistion in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
o the yolewife's quaistion. Sheu wis been raedan aboot on page 8
tae bide somepiece ither. The quaistion skites aff his slite an cutti on page 76
Noo the aafil grave quaistion: tae bide in this coothie orb on page 104
ts?" Noor sees the waant ithe quaistion. Hid's the sam as the waant s on page 116

4 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
an himsel. The ‘aunt’ in quaistion is Magret Bothwell; a wumman
er ne’er recuivers. But the quaistion bydes as ti hou Dr. Damiotti
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ittle journalists that nivver quaistion sic ideas. on page 36
tin her ken that the Sovranty quaistion is warth keepin 8 mind. We ha on page 44
rved us weel in the past, the quaistion nou is whither it serves us w on page 52
ternational project anent the quaistion o a canon o oral leeterature on page 75
win-oot ower the Independence quaistion, But bein as auld as A am, A' on page 80
Also on pages 83, 87, 89, 91, 121, 127, 128, 133
13 matches

General Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
adical Left ower the years in quaistion. Ae 'volunteer', fechtin in F on page 119

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
erdeen, taen up the caw for a quaistion on Scots abeilitie tae be inc on page 121

1 matches

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