A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'grandfather'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grandfatherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.2177
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 grandfather in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
an interest in combines, an a grandfather that's a pillar o society." on page 94

7 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
Tales Of A Grandfather Dunoottar Churchyard Autumn 1 on page 34

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Though my grandfather's faith Was a redder shade of on page 55

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
ae speak the same Scots as ma grandfather spoke. Whether it’s ‘dilu
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
4 @davidmcandrew86 eamonn the grandfather - er the godfather o ammy fi (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
t. He can do that for his old grandfather now that I don’t have his s
a stop on any action by your grandfather to move house.”
of Beatrice’s to move your grandfather to Dalhousie. I’d like to h
rannie. “My Dada, my Indian grandfather, he would have said that they
4 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ood2 That’s bleedin true! Ma grandfather who passed away fae TB after (2020)
s lived and died apart fae ma grandfather https://t.co/P8AWqHn61u(2020)