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The word 'aunties'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
auntiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51614
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 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 aunties in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
a with my two favourite Grand Aunties. Weel, that's no exactly true on page 30

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
Nae Aunties or Uncles, ma Ma or ma Da!
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Stones That Turned, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d hid been weel taught by her aunties how tae sow. She’d ayee man
e times widdershins. Mary’s aunties werena only good wi the needl
2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
unnie’s and grandfaither’s, aunties and uncles, skail is oot an y(2019)

Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
A' yer aunties an' uncles rally roon
1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
enged langsyne tae a couple o aunties thit fowk it the schuil wir t on page 27

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
' Matilda speired. 'Uncles or aunties or grannies wha came tae see on page 192

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
meh grannie, meh aunties, on page 17

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
n he had tae gang an tell his aunties an uncles, an afore ye wuid t on page 67

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
s brither an tittie ti me, an aunties, an companie, an mait an dren
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
The aunties o the laund that I've heard s on page 71
Faithered aunties or Maw. on page 149

2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
t least one seat. Cousins and aunties and second cousins are squeez on page 5

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Ma uncles an aunties an grannie an grampa were alw on page 44

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ma new Winter jacket that my Aunties treated me fir ma Christmas.o(2014)

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