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The word 'eighteen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eighteenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus82613
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 41.4 9 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 27.3 6 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 eighteen 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I aboot extra inches? I weigh eighteen stone, mibbe more, on page 31

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ne he kin be much aulder than eighteen. Remindin me ae yin ae they w on page 168

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
The second victim, an eighteen year old called Harry Reid, w
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nda McCoy an she's only aboot eighteen or nineteen but she's got a f on page 61
Chapter Eighteen on page 97
in John's a right rogue, he's eighteen an he disnae work an aw he di on page 126
Changin Public Health in the Eighteen Thirties tae the Nineteen Thi on page 169

6 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
Changin Public Health In the Eighteen Thirties Tae the Nineteen Thi
ked aboot wis Hygiene, an the Eighteen Sixty-six Sanitary Act. It wi
2 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ip, modern or otherwise. Come eighteen ah wis stuck in college daein
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
least wanae them looks aboot eighteen or suhin, a right elder wan. on page 18
eldest there. It's fae aboot eighteen, nineteen doonwards, finally on page 21
fourteen n fifteen, right tae eighteen n nineteen. Big Kenzie n Eck on page 25

4 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
tae scan at random atween the eighteen cameras that cover aa the cen
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e the jaw, rapid, fae the two eighteen stone lap dugs McNulty hud br
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
an undeemous beast, nearlins eighteen hauns hie, and as strang as o on page 6

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"Lassies that arenae eighteen yet," Klaus said, flickin tae on page 100

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
mistake o gettin pregnant at eighteen like hur. Ah cannae believe t on page 12
f she hudnae fell pregnant at eighteen, she'd be in medical school o on page 34

3 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
And so in eighteen twenty nine on page 41

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
turnt eighteen. Wee Jack the page, fair smer on page 80

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
ink a wis talkin’ aboot the eighteen hundreds, Charles Dickens and
1 matches

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