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The word 'adopted'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
adoptedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11310
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of adopted in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The acoustics o wur adopted city are such on page 9

1 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
ome fokk pronounce it. If wae adopted the Scandinavian 'ø' or Germ on page 8

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
future happiness. He'd bin an adopted wean, reared in Glesga bi a d
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
etely different set up we’ve adopted. The ba only gets hoofed fan (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
trumps - mon the burra - ma adopted eos teem as u no ! (2020) twitter link
cream puff - n theres me an adopted burra fan when a kin fit them (2020) twitter link
get a reaction guys - but ma adopted team r awfy quiet the noo - (2021) twitter link

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
! Deirdre's bairn, wha'd been adopted bi a 'working class' family, on page 128

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
A’ve read, the island fock, adopted the Celtic kulter an langage
1 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
k if eer still wantin ti b an adopted teri e hev ti spk rite #awaya(2012)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
"Why did ye no git the wean adopted?" said Maisie, an she tried t on page 4

1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
monthts o' this report bein' adopted wi' ections identified on page 25

2 matches

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