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The word 'curate'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
curateOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.172
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 53.4 5 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
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 curate in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
a body tae thae lick-spittle curate lackeys o yon leein turncoat on page 24
ee sneevilin lick-spittle o a curate aye at his elbuck. Maist o hi on page 40
n. Thenks be tae God that the curate wis absent this nicht. on page 41
tae gang tae hear the king's curate at the Muir Kirk, they aa jui on page 51

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General Central

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
ster alang wi an Episcopalian curate but that didna last long. He

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
ster alang wi an Episcopalian curate but that didna last lang. He

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