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The word 'ploughed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ploughedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 ploughed in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
MW wind farm at Spurness are ploughed back in tae community project
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
hall jump was a bit limp. Get ploughed through em next time. Neen oh(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
in oan pitches that were like ploughed fields n chants fae the fans (2020) twitter link

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Slowly, softly, on he ploughed
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
arp and weft like tracks in a ploughed field. Bitter needles of caul on page 3

1 matches

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