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The word 'elected'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
electedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of elected in Corpus

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General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
in an herm, a warrant they're elected, better than the lave. on page 10

1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
Dark money Dave elected after an extravagant campaign(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
and of course he will be re elected as president of the usa (2020) twitter link
the snp and the fm and there elected members can do what they want (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
is that far ower monie o oor 'elected representatives' (there are i on page 90

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
houtin, singin n laughin. The elected edgy hus obviously alerted th on page 24

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
That much is true but ah elected tae go tae the Guru’s first
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
what he likes as he winna be elected(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
When you didnae get elected Leanne, all of us were genuin (2022) twitter link

@Sinethugcat tweeted
ogy. Scary tae think she's an elected MP. (2021) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
er mair concerned wae getting elected tae the Hoose o' Lords - the(2021)