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The word 'efficient'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
efficientOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.487
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 efficient in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
lly been as precise, clean or efficient as we wid expect them tae be.
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
t like to check our system is efficient as ever. Don’t want to be d
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n staff were aye gye happy an efficient. Ah wish ye aa guid luck in f(2019)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s a pity yer binmen werent as efficient as these road critters! My bi(2017)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
un be rin in the same wey as 'efficient' private business, een whan m on page 37

1 matches

General Central

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
sider whither or no hit is as efficient as hit cuid be, or whither ye
y cuid wirk mair effective or efficient?
2 matches

Sneddon, Alison Whit dae ye want “British vailues” tae mean?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
’re makkin oor spendin less efficient, an we’re also takkin oorse
1 matches

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