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The word 'vets'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vetsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of vets in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@RaymondBesant Ken any vets to ask? I suspect there may b(2020)

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
her hit wis ta steer clear o vets.
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
iloring thanks to our awesome vets here in Shetland. https://t.c(2017)
p and he wolfed doon his tea. Vets very happy. Bruising g... htt(2017)
efter his day in da wastside vets, scallowa (dir very good) htt(2013)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
ved a condolances card fae da vets when de had tae put wir cat t (2018) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
this documentary oan Vietnam vets. There goes another unsatisfi on page 121

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
These Vets an squaddies invading the fai on page 39

1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
we laugh! Get thon loon tae a vets!(2020)