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The word 'sturgeon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sturgeonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.43016
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.9 7 4
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 24 18 8
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sturgeon in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the tartan mafia. That Nicola Sturgeon, cow. Takin every opportunity on page 55
nd bein an advisor tae Nicola Sturgeon. Come tae hink ae it ah might on page 93

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Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
when she listened tae Nicola Sturgeon talkin on the telly. No acaus
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Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
the tartan mafia. That Nicola Sturgeon, cow. Takin every opportunity
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
othy (a doppelganger o Nicola Sturgeon) and her wee dug Toto (a cair
Nicola Sturgeon woke up wi a start, wiping he
2 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
e on here slagging aff Nicola Sturgeon for banning drinking in pubs (2020)

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
If ye listen tae that Nicola Sturgeon. Though, if they dae bring in
lec is marriet on that Nicola Sturgeon, cos they’re aeways seen oo
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
n tho A like an admire Nicola Sturgeon, there is a danger that we aw on page 33

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
a sign outside his boozer: “Sturgeon the Pint Snatcher.”
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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
oore MP The Richt Hon. Nicola Sturgeon MSP
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McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
s wull gie, it’ll be Nicola Sturgeon that enjoys her Christmas den
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
snae matter if ye dinnae like Sturgeon or the SNP, just listen to he(2018)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
I want @JaneyGodley's Nicola Sturgeon to be unleashed on him, wi th(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
I ken for a fact that Nicola Sturgeon WAS watching because she made(2020)
hoolboy bully couldnae tie Ms Sturgeon's laces. I'd love tae see a f(2020)
love tae ken whits in Nicola Sturgeon's mind this morning.(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
verything I want tae see, but Sturgeon has holed it below the water- (2022) twitter link
st our case. Er, which is why Sturgeon willnae dae it ?? https://t.c (2022) twitter link
ae those you've traduced when Sturgeon is finally unmasked as the de (2022) twitter link
kbrick54 has. Wishart is jist Sturgeon's keyboard warrior - that's (2022) twitter link
chance. It'll come again, cos Sturgeon is as devalued as her beloved (2022) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

@rattlecans tweeted
Sturgeon will be offered entry tae the (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
be oan nixt sayin "Yes Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP 'kent' all about (2021)
wae fowk compared tae Nicola Sturgeon. Ah hae ma ain ideas aboot wh(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Ode Tae 2021 , (twitter 2022) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An crabbit Sturgeon slabbered fae Scotlan
1 matches

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