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The word 'evocative'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
evocativeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 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 evocative in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
‘First Footeen’ tae this evocative list.
1 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
*rolls ees* Still the maist evocative scriever gaun fir me https:// (2018) twitter link

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
t recompance”, which is gey evocative o the lines o poem 49 anent h
As plesis ȝow command’ are evocative o poem 49’s erotically-chai
2 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
'stramash' and 'rammle', sic evocative wurds.(2017)

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