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Use in varieties of Scots

latter Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 10.3 4.5 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences2520 3 0 0 2 0
Number of authors20 16 3 1

Occurrences of latter in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
oke, an addit "Ach, it's no a latter efter aw: it's a set ae verse on page 117

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Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
inti either. (Especially the latter). on page 69
s little o Uncle Nick in thae latter days. I suppose they'd got li on page 70

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
tae some sort o priesthood in latter-day capitalism. on page 95

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
Lockheeds (Lochheads) - the latter makin the plane I kennt as a on page 10

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
lens an Donald Macdonald, the latter o whilk wes ferr-kent e'en i on page 141

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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
Inglish aye replaces it, the latter’s aye still expandin the da
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Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
outhroners naither, daed, the latter ne’er spak ti thaim, gin th
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ie, is ithout smitch, kis the latter, in fack, is a minimal rewrit
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
hae o obscure knowledge. This latter sense is noo archaic in Engli
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Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
ncers. Mair o’ theym in the latter than the former, richt enough
id ah spell that please?’ a latter day Oor Wullie asks wi’ a f
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Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
nguistic heritage, gey near a latter day Book o Kells for Scottish
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
‘subsequently’ etc.; the latter, on the ither haun, as ‘the
onwards’) – although the latter isnae as muckle tae be seen i
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Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
€™, 15 for ‘oor’, tho the latter has heezit in the twentieth c
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
th nerves and excitement. The latter doesnae last long though. Cos
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@billykayscot tweeted
tie wee bool. In Gawston, the latter wis cried a teaker. Cannae mi(2020) search twitter

@annieones tweeted
or apple pie, av jist hud thu latter, slurp?? (2021) twitter link

@MizLiot tweeted
pt the former for eyes an the latter for stuff like "awfy guid wea (2021) twitter link

Doric

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
robable origins come fae thir latter periods.
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Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
We bring tae you a latter recording of Dr Arthur Lanley
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@72redz1903 tweeted
and very good players is the latter make good, composed decisions (2021) twitter link

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
being alone/solitude. a finÂ’ latter fitted me nÂ’ being happy, th(2020) search twitter
than metric. Ahm useless with latter, literally! ??(2020) search twitter