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The word 'collective'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
collectiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.93321
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 2
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of collective in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
collective realities, et cetera. I've go on page 58

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Across Kirkwall a collective shiver... on page 7

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ae coont nouns, mass nouns an collective nouns. Coont nouns is entitie on page 48

3 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
‘dialect’ here is laek a collective noun - a wird laek ‘watter
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
y if we’re talking aboot the collective ownership o the means o produ (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Autumn years which salved oor collective conscience.
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
rse it's gaun tae gan tae oor collective heids. O coorse it'll imbue a
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
But coronavirus haes set oor collective gas at a peep simply bi giein
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
. “Bit that’s - that’s collective suicide ...” he sayed.
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Like collective unconscious, ken, if ye can on page 23

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
een, as the craw flies, their collective thirst, a lump ay solid iron,
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
in somethin other than bein a collective ay condescendin arseholes, wh
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
kin penalty.’ he sais, an a collective groan goes roon the pub alang
es though; the hive mind; the collective soul ay the pub is in momenta
2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
h, and that we shuid haud oor collective wheesht lest they ever discov on page 14

1 matches

Lehane, Matt Tuim Tattie, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
o collective
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
in we wis tae caw wirselves a collective o different byleids, that wui on page 45

1 matches

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
nguages is the expression o a collective identity an o a kenspeckle we on page 20

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ax hunder year an briggin the collective geographical an social experi
1 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
tenance. It also recognizes a collective responsibility, as called for
1 matches

Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
o takkin oorsels oot frae the collective lobbyin, advocacy an negotioa
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
the buzz aroond the National Collective events I gaed tae, the poster
a, Newsnet Scotland, National Collective, Scottish Evening News an ith
tland. The National, National Collective, Bella Caledonia, Wings Over
3 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
icular whit I saw on National Collective’s “Yestival” tour an i
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
the graith fae fause king tae collective, rip up the plaids o the past on page 77

1 matches

General Ulster

Alexander, Brian Yarns 3 - Pilgrimage tae Passchendaele, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Dufferin, prose
on date evokes sic sadness, a collective mindin o loss that hae been h
1 matches

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