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The word 'budget'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
budgetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus103220
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 4
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 56.2 4 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of budget in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
get from OIC - spent up the budget, there, you see." on page 75

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n at cost aboot the same es a budget break fir a faimly o fower te on page 63

1 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
trio tae bide within a club's budget, drappin twa o's band that he
1 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs There’s nae reassurance over national insurance, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
r wye, yer likely caffe latte budget for a month.
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ars & works on a much smaller budget than Rangers & Celtic & is a (2017)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
shoppin budget ae thirty quid a week what el on page 116

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
ut oor depairtment haesna the budget.”
danger tae yer Social Sevices budget.” But bi this airgyment’s
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
70% bein eikit tae the leid's budget. Gaelic upsteerers wis daein
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
duce tae fir folk oan a tight budget lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Thon budget coup bi Jock an Sawney, on page 211

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
sh Government that Scotland's budget keeps getting cut bi Westmins on page 8
siller eer comes in on budget, it likely will no surprise y on page 36
h democracy in action at ilka Budget whaur the Rembrancer is aye i on page 39
that muckle that the original budget his been shatterit, resultin on page 120
in the companies rinnin ower budget tae mak even bigger profits a on page 121

6 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
im tae, in proportion tae her budget, an she wis gled that she had
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
it’s fifty grand oor their budget.
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Wi' Budget's cross. on page 31

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit The Embra Greement, (Scots Language Centre 2012) Central, government
w back the cost fae the Scots budget (the “Scots Consolidatit Fu
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
wadna be able tae pass their budget, anither election wad be cawe
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
n. The terms o a coalition or budget votes could include radical c
threats tae the NHS an furder budget cuts micht be preventit gin t
2 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
o! Even if it means a hae tae budget fir ma trips! xxx(2014)
@MattRichardson3 Budget dependent! But where in Edin (2014)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
maisters gie them - a finite budget that will eventually rin oot.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A budget cutting cost on page 24

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
er-Scots Braidcast Fund(USBF) budget shud bae on page 10
locail wi' 90% haein a total budget o' £12,000 ir less. The on page 45
streams - Pairt o' the USBF budget shud bae ringfenced tae forde on page 55
ud bae unnerpinned bae an apt budget tae forder heftin resources on page 62

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