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The word 'operate'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
operateOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 40 4 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of operate in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
at's 1v Ah can aye myn foo te operate the electric blunket." on page 52

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Aberdeen

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
ons. Ye'd think the folk that operate 'at photie booths could use i
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
designed in China that could operate quicker and cheaper than a pa on page 22

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Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
dinna drehve or operate machinery. on page 18

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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
nin how these fuckin doacturs operate he’s probably teein oaff fa
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
yboady is a fan ae the wey ah operate. And kennin the sacred oath t
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General Central

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
he ability o tredd unions tae operate. Tredd unionists haes cried t
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Votin isna Democracy. But..., (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
on for the richt tae exist an operate. Or think o the richt tae pro
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@bigandymccoll tweeted
d these idiots live in disnae operate like that. Like any faith, ye (2022) twitter link

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
ich is difficult to handle or operate. Sometimes also heard as ‘th(2020)

General Ulster

HRConnect Candidate Wittens Beuklet, (Northern Ireland Executive 2025) Ulster, government
* Operate wi'in the leemits o' thair la on page 8

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Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
- The thrie boadies wul operate wi'in a commissioned 'Researc on page 7
shud operate unner the heighest possible a on page 28

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