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The word 'pledge'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pledgeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.31410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pledge in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
) the Deil gart aa his pupils pledge their immortal sowel in exche
ack himsel frae the grave tae pledge that she'd ay hae thon, fariv
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Labour haes gien a specific pledge in its manifesto tae legislat
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
ut ye hinna redeemed yer last pledge! Yer month wis up the day afo on page 138

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
oot o 129) alang wi a pairty pledge tae haud a referendum on a fr
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
iberal policies fan their ain pledge is tae socialism? It micht we
. Wi this in mind, Murphy’s pledge micht turn oot tae be a tuim
2 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
might as well hae said "I'll pledge free air and free rain for al(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
might as well hae said "I'll pledge free air and free rain for al(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
An' tak' the pledge right noo. on page 14

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ave man that he was, teuk the pledge alang wi aal the sailors drin on page 23

2 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
Bit the pledge tae; on page 672

2 matches

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