A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grandma Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 0.5 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences61 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of grandma in Corpus

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Central

@fairpechtoot tweeted
And gran, granny, Nanna? No 'grandma', eh no @ChrisMcQueer? @DrMDe(2018) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
uncle Jim ken, sae that Auld Grandma Bruce could hear the news fra
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
om, so ye decide tae draa yer grandma and granda. They’re the een
As ye draa the ootline o yer grandma’s stoot body, ye mindlessly
€™d went intae Jamaica wi yer grandma tae see the waterfaa in Kings
e seen amang the men, and yer grandma isna stood wi the mams congre
4 matches

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