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The word 'irrelevance'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
irrelevanceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 irrelevance in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
abour but they are a complete irrelevance because o their thrawn attitu (2022) twitter link

@glenlivetloon tweeted
@AngusMacNeilSNP He's an irrelevance... maist fowk widna ken faa t(2020)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
Dems, whause chairge taewards irrelevance gangs ivver on. This wis bigg on page 8

1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
the weird o dwynin awa intae irrelevance. A simple chynge o leader win
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
the Aye muivment dwyne intae irrelevance, or faw intae infechtin. Inde
1 matches

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