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The word 'competitive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
competitiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of competitive in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
rs like masel tae even remain competitive wae the bookie when it's sutt on page 28

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
he Eisteddfod. The Mod bein a competitive
lin it intae the Sangschaw, a competitive celebration o
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
iddrieStar still looks a guid competitive league guys n b oan tae every (2020) twitter link

West Central

@annieones tweeted
um no, am telling ye a'm urny competitive, ach a wis 2nd ???? #duolingo (2021) twitter link

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
nock-oot competition that wiz competitive on page 52

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
e hated tae lose. Ah kent how competitive she wis, and obviously, so di on page 34

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
wi a competitive couple on page 50

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
es up an we get doon tae full competitive mode. ‘How’d young Daniel
1 matches

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