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The word 'educated'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
educatedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41810
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 2
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of educated in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
i da mid fifties. Very highly educated, wi a first class degree fae on page 13
mortgage, an Sarah haes ta be educated. on page 22

4 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
da economy, wi da ootcome at educated fokk move awa. Pitten idderwi on page 9

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
narled. "I am a banker a more educated man than you,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
roond his neck like some Eton educated disciple. This guy seems tae on page 52
eated area at the back and an educated guess wid tell yae his latest on page 72

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
in Scots. "I've had my Scots educated out of me." is the excuise th
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
racters in Jekyll an Hyde wur educated traivelled fellaes, whae wud
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
oot that, "Every, but every, educated person knows that there are t
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
is brocht up by her auntie an educated, mainly at hame by a successi on page 124

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
sticks tae them. But tae the Educated - tak tent, tortie Wee Grump on page 82
ornins? He learns. He becomes Educated. He instigorates - I jalouse on page 83

3 matches

Fenton, Janet A Guid New Year tae yin and a!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
He'd had a sair trial tae get educated and he wantit guid education
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@DABArbuckle tweeted
hink that a man born, raised, educated and biding in Scotland should(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
lad's bin weel educated." on page 13

1 matches

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