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The word 'voted'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
votedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.23921
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 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 17.4 13 7
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of voted in Corpus

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Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
ore aboot the age o fokk that voted and mibbee hear the thowts o

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ks an sma’er scaffie buckets voted bi Aberdeenshire Cooncil - a(2019)
Aat wid be great if ye voted fur Bravehound a charity aat (2019)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
r vote. An thanks ta abdy fas voted ariddy??. Hae a bonnie Sunday (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
Of course, I niver voted masel. I am een o’ the sile
1 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ivvry cooncillor an hoo they voted; an did they abstain; or did on page 8

1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
07654587 @ScotlandNT Foo many voted fur Porteous?(2020)

@cligeey tweeted
avid_duguid Fit aboot when he voted away food standards is he gan(2020)
tive and Unionists colleagues voted to empty bairns plates in Eng(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
the same gadgie that himself voted by mail?(2020)
rewToon Och thats a pity.I've voted for Red Riot. All the best.(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
le from east lothian actually voted macaskill in - mans a muppet (2021) twitter link
ndence up her jacksie m8 - a voted yes the last time n half the (2020) twitter link
roud to say myself and family voted yes then without any hesitati (2020) twitter link
i voted to leave the eu - whats ur p (2021) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
that chance in a lifetime. We voted naw. Well, mony o’ us didna
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@annieones tweeted
ries I canny understand it, i voted for Ruthy, where is she? Who (2021) twitter link
ries I canny understand it, i voted for Ruthy, where is she? Who (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
that an affy lot o fowk that voted agin Scotland takkin back its on page 93
olicies we detestit, an hadna voted fer, foistit on us. There wis on page 103
for Scotland, the nem we had voted tae tak on. It wis guid that on page 104
apartheid state o Israel, aw voted agin it. Yet China abstainit, on page 129
pairties, voted tae support the ban, Nou, ye on page 130

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
onfire. An tho Parliament had voted fer Reform the auld weys o ri on page 125

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General Central

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
19t September as 55% o Scots voted Na tae independence as Glesca
as Glesca had a majority that voted Aye. The streets then turned
wavin thugs. But the 45% that voted Aye kept resolute.
3 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
we go again wae the 'scotland voted against it' pish. dae these s(2016)

@fourmenterian tweeted
askin'? Aye, am askin. Naw, I voted #SNP #SNPBad https://t.co/2WV(2015)

@RickHJohnston tweeted
acancy since you inexplicably voted to leave. Keep the heid BTW. (2022) twitter link

@OliphantWullie tweeted
r @EunisJassemi Scotland s no voted Tory since 1955 Anas, but unf (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
t that. YOUR Lord and Masters voted aginst it. Pack yer bags.(2020)
ble lose out? Fae a party wha voted tae keep vulnerable refugee b(2020)
rewRosindell From a Party who voted tae tak awa free TV licences (2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
that 'UK ministers' have noo voted tae import 'lower standard' p(2021)
hing industries and noo ye've voted tae deny the poorest o' £20 (2021)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Deid chuffed to be voted Best Scots Writer at the @han (2020) twitter link

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
They were voted the best fans that iver had b on page 29

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