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The word 'teens'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
teensOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7128
ORK - Orkney
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 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 2
EDN - Edinburgh
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of teens in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ergie daesna ken aa the psalm teens (they warna aften sung in's a on page 24

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - Three poems, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, poetry
ee; bit we forgya him his ill teens
1 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
When A wis strappin in ma teens
youngsters, barely past their teens
2 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
she goat aulder. By her early teens, she’d added a few mair act
1 matches

West Central

Kirk Jn, Albert Guid Fences Mak Guid Neibours, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
For droonin the swine whae teens me wi crap!
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
. Bi the time A wis in ma mid teens A wis stairtin tae perform in on page 70

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
rite up ti wir teens, how it wiz, how it is on page 72

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ders an William, still in his teens but awready a pouerful an cou on page 23
ota wis a lass weel intae her teens an a finelookin, strappin las on page 78

2 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
ae help masel..... #Parenting Teens. Acknowledgement your a teen,(2015)

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
But then we growed intae oor teens on page 2

1 matches

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