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Use in varieties of Scots

ambitions Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1.5 4.5 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences83 3 0 0 0 2
Number of authors8 3 3 2

Occurrences of ambitions in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
it wis ower wee for their ain ambitions - an the faimilies they mich on page 78

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McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Youth’s ambitions we hae fired,
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Lehane, Matt Aye an Ay, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
thae sclimed ambitions
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Doric

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
uspeck that as MacDiarmid’s ambitions grew, sae did his desire for
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@72redz1903 tweeted
wi nae atmosphere. Cove’s ‘ambitions’ will yet meet an economy if (2022) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
y Oh well, that’s killed ony ambitions I had aboot becoming the new (2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
tichtly so, fur Sally had had ambitions fur thon wean. She wud hae la on page 35

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Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An aa the ambitions ye cud achieve, on page 15

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