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The word 'preparations'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
preparationsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
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
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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 preparations in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ik whizzed by in a whirlwin o preparations. Morrice shuddert it the thoc on page 40

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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Preparations deen fer World Book day neist (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
e time oot fae the semi final preparations tae phone my auld boy and wis (2020) twitter link

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
Preparations underwye for hen's fart sandw(2020)

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
The spring thaw begoud, an preparations got unnerwey for the rescue.
elin cut adrift onywey by the preparations tae lea the lamasery. This pl
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General Central

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
Nae military preparations are bein made. Nae armaments

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