A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grandfaither Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.7 15.4 4.5 0 0 93 8.9
Number of occurrences4430 3 0 0 9 2
Number of authors22 18 2 1 1

Occurrences of grandfaither 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.

Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
pbell hersel, an had seen her grandfaither Sir Hew Campbell o Cessnock f on page 66

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hat his Victoria Cross winnin grandfaither wis actually a secret Nazi sy on page 109

1 matches

Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
tae ma grandfaither's haun, stampin the glaur on page 195

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
were musicians, like ma great-grandfaither Willie Alexander, that wis a on page 36

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
d wee Chairlie, gawpin at his grandfaither. on page 12
edge o the bed, gawpin at his grandfaither. Chairlie's fizzog wis bricht on page 16
rlie, you listen tae yer auld grandfaither.' on page 31
grandfaither? Delichted tae meet ye, sir! on page 70
rlie wis haudin ticht tae his grandfaither's baney auld haun. His heid w on page 93

5 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Mibbes his faither, or grandfaither, on page 59
Faither, grandfaither, three generations, on page 73

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
the bairn didnae half gie his grandfaither a fleg on page 32

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
hearan grandfaither, baith humble tae imbibe on page 112

1 matches

Crawford, Ross Eemis Stane 1 - Ane Dialog betwix King James VI, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, script
tt, my kin remembir yer greit-grandfaither spak Gàidhlig. Did he not ru on page 11

2 matches

Peffers, Bob A Aboot Mid-Camps, Kirnitten, Bi East Cawther, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
ocht up bi ma Auld Grannie an Grandfaither kis ma faither wis awa fechti
i a raw o pleughies cottages. Grandfaither cam o fermer an miller fowk b
Irish catholic tattie howker. Grandfaither ferm wis ca'd, "Blinkbonnie".
Haddington i the Borders.When Grandfaither mairrit Grannie his faimly, W
4 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
But A'll tak grandfaither's advice
Ae winter time ma grandfaither had got an awfu hoast.
2 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
med intae the faimily and the grandfaither played by Jimmy Logan made a
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
Telt tae me by ma grandfaither, Andra Coogan. He haed been s
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
hae muckle tae get by on. Ma grandfaither wad gae doun tae meet the fis
1 matches

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
d the Hausa for saut, tae. My grandfaither Samuel McDiarmid Young – a
wn up wi hed come ti be in ma grandfaither’s hous. As A wis pittin the
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
struggle though, ah mean if a grandfaither cannae help oot wae the grand
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
n fae the caul. If the gilded grandfaither clock wis tae be trusted, she
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ly Tory aince upon a time (ma grandfaither wis a Lanarkshire steel warke
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
an homophobic hoosehauld. Ma grandfaither uised the 'n' wird a lot, an (2020) search twitter

Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
the facts. Ma cousin Ellen's grandfaither an grandmither came fae the C on page 57

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
’s faitherÂ’s, grunnieÂ’s and grandfaitherÂ’s, aunties and uncles, skail(2019) search twitter
on VJ Day ahÂ’m thinking o ma grandfaither fa served in the Gordon Highl(2020) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
wi ma faither an ma maternal grandfaither. Descendents o Wattie ir nou
ae ferst kizzen o ma maternal grandfaither wis the Herd it Philhope, wha
wis ma substitute maternal grandfaither, efter ma muther’s faither,
Ha, hoose, whaur ma paternal grandfaither bade; whan hei wis
ae matter o fack, ma maternal grandfaither’s step-faither.
9 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
hoose a mausoleum tae Alfie's grandfaither, Captain George Andrews, who, on page 30
A distant grandfaither clock chimed ten times. She h on page 54

2 matches

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