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The word 'elections'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
electionsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.74814
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 50.4 38 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
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 elections in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
ye look at them Presidential elections getherin steam, on oor TVs. A
1 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
t I thocht last wik’s local elections wiz a total wash oot. Far wiz
1 matches

(South) East Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Tories mair aften than no win elections because o English votes. An e
1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
hud their arses skelpt in yon elections the last time… and the time
Minister, an they a’ set up elections an’ that. That’s no richt
2 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie The dingin doun o devolution, (Mak Forrit 2020) Central - Edinburgh, blog
te in neist year’s Holyruid elections, for a stert. That’s the be
1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
The Union, the Labour vote in elections that’s tae come, and oniepl
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
ressed in periodic and jonick elections that shal be by universal and
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
Political Pairties, Elections an Referendums (PPERA), sees
the Commission anent Elections.
Commission anent Elections takkin hits swatch o‟t, as
caws for the Commission anent Elections tae tak a swatch o the
the Commission anent Elections can gie advice or supply tae
27 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
EU referendum – wi cooncil elections noo less nor a year awa an aw
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
o this kind for the Halyruid elections jist past, or the Independenc
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
imsel gaein intae the cooncil elections a year frae noo.
™ll cairry on for the cooncil elections nixt Mey (whilk, tae me, wad
2 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
icht leuk awfu ticht, but bye-elections daesna exist in Denmark (gin
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ider democratic process ootwi elections.
1 matches

Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
it micht hae on the Holyrood elections.
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
til it’s pit tae the test o elections ower the nixt twa year. But i
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ned the lessons o the Cooncil elections i 2012, whan a guid set o res
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
ae vote in the Green internal elections? Thanks.(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ichard Arkless, UK Pairlament Elections, Lochside Community Centre, D on page 77

2 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
rs with you in the Paisley by elections. You were dead helpful, passi (2021) twitter link

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