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The word 'acknowledgement'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
acknowledgementOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41310
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 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 acknowledgement 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
e gees me an approvin noad ae acknowledgement. Before swiftly he returns ta on page 154
t tae me withoot a hint ae an acknowledgement. And at that very moment ma m on page 192

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McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
anguage and sang. Whit better acknowledgement could there be o Hamish’s l
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Ah noad in acknowledgement. Efteraw, it might be a hard
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
He whispered: "Ye are beyont acknowledgement. on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
verty friendly but it's a wee acknowledgement. McGiver sees it m nods his o on page 59

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
he side ay the motor in vague acknowledgement ay the beat.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e the occasional monosyllabic acknowledgement, watchin the red an blonde sa
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General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
tional Mother Earth Day is an acknowledgement that the Earth and its ecosys
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Halloween, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
be nae mair than a semple wee acknowledgement o the auld conventions; cairi
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@jax6754 tweeted
masel..... #Parenting Teens. Acknowledgement your a teen, bein spoken and (2015)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tae yon yin true acknowledgement on page 24

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General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
n bae governmental awareness, acknowledgement an' ection tae on page 14

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