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The word 'ballot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ballotOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ballot in Corpus

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South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
gied his ballot spiel.
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
n AV - when it comes tae the ballot box, no much has gaun oor wey
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
annae even stand prood at the ballot box and tak’ whit’s richt
1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
n be run in twa weys), Doubil Ballot, Alternative Vote an Suppleme
Doubil Ballot is a sicht mair easie unnerst
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
a Uncle John goat them in the ballot. Him, his mate an his mate’
1 matches

General Central

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Soond shift, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
in station wi a gowf stick, a ballot kist cowpin intae the watter on page 49

1 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e staundin for a pairtie (the ballot papers is awfu lang acause th
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
here’s advice oan fillin in ballot papers, an quotes an stories
1 matches

@LowEndJardo tweeted
n time and the london mayoral ballot, yer actual feeding trolls in (2021) twitter link

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