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The word 'constitution'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
constitutionOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51612
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 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 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of constitution in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
doon ti the prom. She bade in Constitution Street, an it wisna far ti pu on page 74

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Ye say ye've a bad constitution, ach weel ye ken on page 152
Ye say ye've a bad constitution, ach weel ye ken on page 169

2 matches

@glenlivetloon tweeted
ght how Iceland rewrote their constitution was ground breaking..pulling (2013)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Language an the EU Constitution
versity, tae the new draft EU Constitution. This merkit nae sma loup for
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
his brakkin 'the fundamentall Constitution of this Kingdome... froma leg on page 44

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
tragically, affecting ma weak constitution. Gangly fucking cunt. Fuck.â€
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ublic o Ecuador pit oot a new Constitution follaein a popular raiferendu
‘The new Ecuadorian Constitution includes a Chapter: Rights fo
been unnertaen unner the new constitution in Ecuador in that respeck. Y
3 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
ntal richts grantit him o the constitution or by law.
1 matches

McNulty, Victoria Flit, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Her majesty’s constitution
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
Hae a deek at the grassroots constitution-writing process going on in I(2019)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
angrick an' in Airlan fae the constitution an'the European Chairter o' H on page 57

1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
ts put thegither the American Constitution, sae I took a keek: couldnae (2014) twitter link

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