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The word 'ambitions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ambitionsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 2
LAL - General Central
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ambitions in Corpus

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South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
uspeck that as MacDiarmid’s ambitions grew, sae did his desire for
1 matches

General Northern

@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)

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Youth’s ambitions we hae fired,
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Ayrshire

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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Lehane, Matt Aye an Ay, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
thae sclimed ambitions
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East Antrim (Larne)

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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General Ulster

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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