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The word 'civilised'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
civilisedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 civilised in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
I?ll bi verra professional an civilised. Ah'm nae a feel." on page 8

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
iscourse which is always mair civilised. Public discourse on the othe (2020) twitter link

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an civilised within thi nation on page 47

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@d_anderson878 tweeted
Onywye civilised faar tatties needit pickin in(2020)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
- where wan is say, huvin a civilised conversation in like minded c
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
, ane o the reid lines that a civilised society winna cross for onie
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
ny a talk taen place. Aw very civilised compared tae 300 years ago.

@rattlecans tweeted
ds tae horse whip the ever so civilised 6ft fucking deaconess aroon t (2022) twitter link

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