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The word 'retweet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
retweetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7128
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 6
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 retweet in Corpus

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General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
Hmmm think I'll gie up on th retweet fae @antanddec .......they ma(2011)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
l - it wis rudi klein - the retweet king - doot the laddies lost (2020) twitter link
guys - aye n u kin quote and retweet me on that - feckin ragin lo (2020) twitter link
a jist hud tae retweet this - ur a legend rag time (2021) twitter link
dont u jist luv the retweet gadgies oan twitter - plenty (2020) twitter link

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
e dark, and I wouldn't mind a retweet, if ye dinnae mind?.. A parce (2022) twitter link

@jax6754 tweeted
tae dae some studying. A wee retweet wuid be guid efter! xxz http:(2014)
in Scotland! But I'll happily retweet! X?(2015)

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
ooks Aww ?? ?? Thanks for the retweet. Guid luck wi your nomination(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
his is exactly why we hiv tae retweet and archive everything. We mu (2022) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
@wordamentalist Retweet fae me ?? (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
a 'blether wi the weather'?! Retweet wi yer favourite Scots wird o (2018) twitter link