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The word 'ambassador'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ambassadorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ambassador in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
nce Andrew as a 'Make A Wish' ambassador. Only two meetins oan theday on page 30

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
week bi Randolph the English Ambassador tae Scotland.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
u he haed been 'an unofficial ambassador for Scotland', uisin the inte
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
an Archbishop that served as Ambassador tae France fer James v afore on page 118

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
'I made ye my ambassador, the king cawed oot, hastylik on page 42

1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
Gey soon the Scots ambassador in Argentina ???? will be rep (2022) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ye a - Nicky B is bein Adair ambassador fir (2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
urnett16 A'm a Scots Language Ambassador ( appt by Education Scotland) (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
ken whit bairns are is a bad ambassador for Northern Ireland ??(2020)