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The word 'formation'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
formationOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6128
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 22.2 5 2
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 formation in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
3 Morphology an wird-formation: makkin an inflectin wirds in on page 38

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Atlantic Ocean meet. Noo the formation o the cave is spectacular. Th
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
me time due tae the change in formation - simply, Duk is keeping him (2022) twitter link
in there analysing his set up/formation in July. There is so much tha (2022) twitter link
n ah season. Didnae mater fit formation he played and tae be frank, t (2022) twitter link
ngy Absolutely no way - this formation is working, plenty bodies up (2020) twitter link

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
e Trotternish ridge, a muckle formation o black craigs an braes o sta
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
GusBracks93 the morris dancin formation lol (2020) twitter link
land r going for an attacking formation 2 nite against faroes - ffs (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Gas formation
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
n” (*boak*) as a fairly new formation didna help thaim onie, an the
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Lallans 59 - Painting the Forth Bridge: A Search for Scottish Identity, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ir a quest fir the origins an formation o wir National Identitie nor on page 84

1 matches

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