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The word 'politician'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
politicianOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 53.1 5 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of politician in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
hin' cries wirkin' class hero politician like a puss covered in wifeys(2015)

@72redz1903 tweeted
rysdale Fah wid want tae be a politician for ony political party? The (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ugh on here to slag off every politician bar our fm - too many yes pe (2020) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
€™s probably why ah’m nae a politician. Div ye read the Press n Jour
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
bi the various shades o Tory Politician that mak up the great majorit on page 78
iency'. These days, whan onie politician talks o 'increased on page 94
time A cin mind onie British politician no actin like a lapdog tae th on page 116
rins o ilka richtwing Spanish politician ettlin tae cling on tae Spain on page 140

4 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Eh dinna whant ti be a politician on page 47

1 matches

General Central

@bigandymccoll tweeted
infamy. Intit lucky I'm not a politician ?? https://t.co/YVmDR0OMBR (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
e minister, the doctor an the politician. on page 24

1 matches

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