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The word 'aginst'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aginstOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.9196
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 99.8 8 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of aginst in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
t pie and bovril. Hink it wis aginst Dundee. Yir an affa Chiel #do(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
An bashed his heid aginst a waa, on page 30

1 matches

General Central

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
aginst the same challenges
aginst some
2 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
. YOUR Lord and Masters voted aginst it. Pack yer bags.(2020)
ba players banned fae playing aginst Wales because they attended a(2020)
ae an English boarding skuill aginst yer wishes, hence the accent.(2020)
ng him on" by actively voting aginst his appeal tae feed poor, hun(2020)
a 'Dougie vaccine' tae guard aginst contamination fae aw the shit(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Aginst threi tongues th'gither? on page 5
emme o croquet she was playin aginst hersel, fur this curious bair on page 14
e, she funnd hur heid pressin aginst th ceilin, an hed tae stoop t on page 33
fect o lyin doon wi yin elbow aginst th door, an th ither airm cur on page 34
lice's elbow was pressed hard aginst eet, that attempt proved a fa on page 35
Also on pages 41, 50, 56
8 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
aginst ma table-end. on page 12
- No doot it wuid be aginst the rules. But gin we tak ten on page 19

2 matches

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