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The word 'impediment'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
impedimentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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) 72.7 4 1

Occurrences of impediment in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
ical deformities and a speech impediment that wis cured by a deity. on page 3

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
an’ again. Ah huv a speech impediment. Scots birls roon ma brain bi
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
whaur it's aimed at - a wee impediment fer a guided missile, ye mich on page 121

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e in his catechism. It wis an impediment that he'd tholed ever since h on page 22

1 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
otland - walkin wi a limp or impediment.(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
be mocked or ridiculed for an impediment ye cannae control and certain(2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
d o a pall wi yer poust or an impediment ’at haes held oan, or is li
An impediment wi lear (tha like o Down synd
An impediment wi lear (tha like o dyslexia)
Laid aff seek or wi an impediment fur a richt while
4 matches

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