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Use in varieties of Scots

contest Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.9 4.5 7.5 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences169 5 0 0 1 1
Number of authors13 7 4 1 1

Occurrences of contest 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
tak on Sodom an Gomorrah in a contest o sins, an win ootricht ... A on page 31

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
a gallows rope there wis nae contest, an they countit theirsels lu on page 107

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
national, the Eurovision Sang contest for minority languages, that'
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Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
THE WEAVIN CONTEST
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Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
wantit at first. Mair o’ a contest really. Get the lads out to w
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Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
his isnae a fuckin popularity contest, Aldo’’ he challenges me.
ese two tae play oot a starin contest.
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
we baith dive intae a starin contest.
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@ionafyfe tweeted
eat Scottish Bake Aff. Just a contest tae see how many butteries th(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
says it's a condeeshun o the contest that baith pairties should we on page 90

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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
It wis naw contest. Teenie Baxter skytit on a ba
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
d https://t.co/PGl8van2zr The contest closes on the 28th February 2(2018) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
te on TV caud Eurovision Song Contest, and as fer that song that wo(2018) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
@ClydesdAileen Nae contest ??(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
a baag championschip contest maist yeirs at gets national on page 44

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