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The word 'chooses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
choosesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
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 chooses in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
is hatched, chooses ta nest nearly a mile fae da on page 92

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
chooses thenight, ae aw nights, tae s on page 75

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
but classy when shi chooses, on page 68

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
survey the mess. Until Dougie chooses tae jump aboot ma heid while
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
the companies thairsels chooses if Scots is comprehendit or n on page 7
A wheen screivars chooses tae write thair wark in Eye D on page 19

2 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
diddies that she deliberately chooses tae be near her, will be held (2022) twitter link

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