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The word 'contract'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
contractOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82618
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of contract in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
fae wur universal zero oors contract. on page 12

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
an lexical verbs, bit it can contract tae n't: I'm not on page 89

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
keese fur wintin siller – a contract hid bin cancelled at wirk; he
ns an oots o their transplant contract. Gin Bappy deed, Auld Jude wa
2 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
l a player. I dinna think the contract situation and nae committing (2023) twitter link
r season Pittodrie. Del has a contract that must be worth at least 3 (2021) twitter link
% of the population still tae contract this disease and ah ye hear i (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
tt Wright all in last year of contract. Mak or brak time. Wright onl(2020)
Contract extension priority fur those (2020)

@cligeey tweeted
s a wee nyaff running oot his contract If the Don's benefitted fae a(2020)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
there a nightmare. Expand and contract by the seasons. PVC, check th(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
s now got an extended 2 years contract tae - laddies no got a scoob (2020) twitter link

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
the place, no on a zero oors contract. on page 14

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
t conteenually reneges on its contract wi the people. Fae birther ta
in it. We wadnae be able tae contract oot aw oor thinkin aboot hou
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
r workers' richts an a social contract atween the governit and the g on page 81

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Ye'll hae a contract wi Auld Nick on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ends aff for 'from' (A goat a contract aff ma publisher the ithir da on page 36

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
olet had signed the mairriage contract wi her richt haund, the law w on page 153

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
stand that thare is a certane contract made bytwene Sir Malcolme of on page 19

3 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
ill ect, .noo.whit aboot that contract..??(2019)

@LairnScots tweeted
n read aw aboot how some folk contract auxiliary verbs in certain ci (2021) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
s are Tory donors wha got the contract without tender and are makin (2021)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ruler wha disnae abide by the contract: gie them a quare skelp. Henc (2015) twitter link