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The word 'funds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fundsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.12314
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 84.3 6 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of funds in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
it might be seen as diverting funds away from investment in the a on page 35

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Fin Huntly fowk can nae get funds
There wis nae mair funds ti reef the dome
2 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
s a great incentive tae raise funds, but ah canna help thinkin th
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
your account has insufficient funds. Do you have anything you can
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
sic like, held tae raise funds tae sort the reef. There wis
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ep the peace. Mair government funds reclaimed. Then I smell it. N on page 1

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
rs cash again - raise ur own funds! (2020) twitter link

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
tists. Tae keep up the club's funds there is aften a raffle, an v on page 56

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
airged fowk sae much, it made funds ye see on page 65
We raised oor ain funds an peyed our ain wey. on page 67

2 matches

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
In raisin funds she isnae slaw,
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Due tae a lack ae disposable funds, it's either taxis both ways on page 38

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
unny. Tommy'll kill you if he funds oot – he's a good Protestan
1 matches

General Central

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
The Scots Government funds the Dictionars o the Scots Le
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
llect thon chuckies and raise funds for @NHSCharities, RT, donate(2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Ulster-Scots Covid Funds bae Cless o' Curns on page 34
Ulster-Scots Covid Funds Toons / Kintra Split on page 35
cudnae tak' lottery funds. Bit thon didnae turn oot tae on page 37

6 matches

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