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The word 'teenager'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
teenagerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42413
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 62.4 5 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 teenager 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

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
When I! wis a teenager though, I niver fur a meenit on page 48

1 matches

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
wis written by a OCD American teenager at disno spaek Scots" is the (2020)

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Dat's becis shü is a teenager. I got her sometheen I ken sh on page 24

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
t Dugald heard later that the teenager wis in custody an hid refused on page 118

1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
at make me sound like a right teenager haha. Fir you wearin dolly?(2011)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The Truth Will Out, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
idow) couldnae cope wi haen a teenager so she went tae Auntie Dorisâ
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
en going through a rebellious teenager stage. He refused point blank
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ye goat dumped when ye wir a teenager, yer maw would get the tea oa on page 3

2 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
t wis a lot o rubbish. 'Yer a teenager, she said. 'Lassies yer age a on page 7

2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
n, jumping the flights like a teenager. Once, someone caught him at on page 14

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
God. Ah'm a teenager. Well, near enough. Ah dinnae on page 35
s - and fur aw ah'm barely a teenager, ah'm still at the age where on page 50

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
replied. 'Mind when she wis a teenager, and ye could always tell whe on page 61

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
for a sneisty teenager on page 8
Fower Sangs for an Umquhile Teenager on page 70

2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Review: O is for Hoolet, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
, Alasdair Allan, hersel as a teenager, a haundful o linguists an ma
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
cried Marathon until Ah wis a teenager.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
whan a wur ae teenager. Wei teuk or motor tae the Ho
ntil Girnwood ferm. Ay, is ae teenager an lang efter, A hae fond
ae teenager, did ae gei bit o wurk on the
r. Weel A mynd, whan A wis ae teenager, daein
teenager, ma faither an mei did ae gey
5 matches

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