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The word 'initiative'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
initiativeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61512
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 56.2 4 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of initiative in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
contemporar airt initiative). The twa groups hiv pit inta on page 12

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ent amang thaim aw an see his initiative win throu.The collogue wis st
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
r disasters wi Public Finance Initiative type schemes tae date, like t on page 36

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
hersel, able for tae tak the initiative, Ah wad guess ... awauk tae h
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Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
ee cunt wouldnae even huv the initiative tae try n replace it, should on page 7

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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
be able to work on their own initiative and be a good timekeeper as t
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General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Scots noo seems tae loss ony initiative. Time an again, an innovation
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
r the Guid News. This wis her initiative, engagement on her ain terms,
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@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
vFM How dae we tap intae this initiative? @CurlyTaleBooks(2019)

@LairnScots tweeted
o Scots in the 1+2 languages initiative an the SQA award should addre (2019) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Scots initiative on page 186

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General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
- An airted initiative tae heft schuil tae commonity on page 9
* Forderin o' a baag initiative tae forder an' heft oor Ulste on page 12
Scotch shud forder an' airted initiative tae heft schuil tae commonity on page 49
* Forderin a major initiative tae forder an' heft oor Ulste on page 69

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