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The word 'offeicial'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
offeicialOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3179
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
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31.4 5 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 7
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 offeicial in Corpus

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West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
gg wrait ti Lockhart, Scott's offeicial biographer, ti speir o him th on page 116

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ndin Gaelic, an Scots, an the offeicial uiss o the headin 'Culture on page 8

1 matches

Edinburgh

Sneddon, Duncan Lallans 83 - Biggin Brigs – Nummer 3: Cornish, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Cornish haes sum degree o offeicial status, an like Scots is prot on page 107
muive intae a mair prominent offeicial space, wi clesses i the schui on page 109

3 matches

Capener, Jack No Guid Eneuch, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
e'er howp tae yaise Scots in offeicial contexts like job interviews
in, signage, an owersettin in offeicial documents. Thon's exackly why
2 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
aes been eikit tae the leit o offeicial leids! Anither byordnar thing on page 10

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
kle mair valuable tae hae the offeicial backing for the leid at noo e on page 56

3 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
different fae the offeicial leid(s) o that State;
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 59 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, newspaper
gaun debate anent academic an offeicial registers o Scots, an in this
guid thing ti uise Scots for offeicial purposes at aa, sen the langu
2 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
Hit's offeicial: Scotland an Catalonia are no(2018)

@ionafyfe tweeted
ots gien status as a lawfu an offeicial language. Gie #oorvyce a foll(2020)

@RickHJohnston tweeted
a staunart written Scots for offeicial purposes wad be a muckle loup (2022) twitter link

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