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The word 'protective'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
protectiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 protective in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ndit. "The salon does provide protective paper headwear and undergarme on page 81

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
me, oan the altar, thur was a protective ring roon her an her twa sons on page 1

1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
“Sorry, son, Sam is awfie protective o Sherry,” Miss Pullar soot
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
detectable, acause Bill put a protective erm aroon her.
rs walks wi him.” She pit a protective erm aroon Raggle an swept him
2 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
passed. The sturdy fence felt protective, nae enclosin. Ootside the ga
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
eeeeeeee Eeeeeeeeee! Personal Protective Equipment!’ he sais, sprayi
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
behint a huge protective wa built on page 10

1 matches

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