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The word 'carers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
carersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11310
ORK - Orkney
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 carers 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
The twa carers at git ma riddy fir ma bed ir on page 47
a oors tull the clatter o the carers signals the stairt o anither on page 49

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
he'd be kent as ane o the kin-carers, an wad be keepit at hame til
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
the nurses care assistants an carers fa darg fur NHS Grampian, the(2020)

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
t fur guessin). Ane week the 'carers' rived an auld pillae slip in on page 80

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
sties, bus-drivers, cleaners, carers, an aw thae fowk strandit on on page 10

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
h’ve gat left away, but the carers who come tae ma door will huv
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ootside at wance, clappin fur carers. It brings a tear tae ma eye.
1 matches

General Central

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
nform an engage wi parents an carers aboot the place o Scots langu on page 7

2 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
Ye cannae ye widnae be unpaid carers if ye could and the cnuts ken(2020)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
rnal grandparents were foster carers for decades and are among the(2019)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
in hames, their faimilies and carers tae, mony o them @scotslangua(2020)