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The word 'functional'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
functionalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4115
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 1
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 5.3 4 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of functional in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
descriptive wirds), dan at da functional classes, dat is articles (wir on page 46
bilang tae da closed class o functional wirds, meanin dey hae little on page 51
bilang tae da closed class o functional wirds, on page 61
ical class o verbs, dan at da functional on page 69
bilang tae closed functional class o wirds, an dey ir wint on page 78

6 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
Glaswegian's goat an awfy wee functional vocabulary when it comes tae on page vi

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
bides, but also the social an functional scowth needit for the haill f on page 20

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
eland ony mair or less (dys-) functional; naither dis it haud a body b
1 matches

Ahmad, Nyla How We Celebrate – scrievin prompt, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
r ain methods o celebratin in functional scrievin. Functional scrievin
scrievin. Functional scrievin is scrievin that has
2 matches

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