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The word 'foundation'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
foundationOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4119
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of foundation in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ays win, and it's built oan a foundation ae misery. But, well, yae can on page 28

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ack eye liner an bright white foundation an a big mad leather trenchco on page 103

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Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
sum perfume an foundation, on page 61

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Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
The community-run Assynt Foundation owns the popular walkin areas
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ah passed at the British hert foundation. He looked like he’d been j
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
er, it rises fae the concrete foundation slab ay the factory; a doocot
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Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
venly apply the Wotsit colour foundation she’s slapped oan tae her d
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General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
he'd get a shock. These days, foundation lips are aw the rage. No that on page 52

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Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - In Liverpool Cathedral, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
1900; the foundation stane wis laid in 1904, it wi on page 102

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McNulty, Victoria Hame, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, poetry
Planned the foundation,
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General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
sustained research base.Thon foundation on page 28

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