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The word 'deficit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deficitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee 53.1 5 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 deficit in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
in short, a want o sowl—a deficit which nae painstaking in educ
1 matches

West Central

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
guid measure o that cultural deficit, via the ignorance, neglect a
guid measure o that cultural deficit.”
s, mony keen tae mak up for a deficit in their ain education, but 3
3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
rage o equals. The democratic deficit that wis the result g the 170 on page 28
address Scotland's democratic deficit, the bleck-affrontin an cynic on page 101
e still hae a fell democratic deficit, ane that cin only be sortit on page 102
the problems o the democratic deficit in the publick ee. It wis a S on page 109

5 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
There's nae deficit ae princes fur a noble maiden on page 72

1 matches

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