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Use in varieties of Scots

dad's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.1 5.3 11.2 9.9 11.6 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences2210 7 1 2 1 1
Number of authors14 6 4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of dad's in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
oan the couch in her mum and dad's livin room. The telly wis oan on page 34
means. But then ah catch the dad's morbid puss. And that's when on page 36

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ond tae the hoose. Reckon hey dad's awready oan his third hert at on page 130

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
d at me an then she said, Yir dad's thinkin about takin swimmin l on page 15

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Teeger that Cam for his Tea, (Floris Kelpies 2018 ISBN: 978-1782504665) Central, weans
an aw Dad's best beer, on page 16
. "I've naething left for yer dad's tea. Yon teeger has etten eve on page 19

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
cially in hur old age. But if Dad's job situation hudnae been so on page 30
car le by a benign tumour oan Dad's leg. Ah'm queasy at the best on page 86

3 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Dad's Airmy we're no, on page 37

1 matches

Doric

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
again Carlo got riggit in my dad's claise an aff we wid gang for on page 27

1 matches

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
in love wi auntie Hillary, my dad's sister. They hid 3 quines: aa on page 57

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Dad's feart te flee-ee. Dad's feart te flee-ee." Motrice re on page 40

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e baith left hame noo; Mam an Dad's lang since departit ess earth on page 22
greetin, cause she hidna bin Dad's Missus Reed, she'd bin my Mis on page 67

2 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
My Dad's 90th Birthday today. Hope he (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
hat luks like me and Jack, wi Dad's ginger hair. on page 60

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ftland whaur generations o my dad's side cam afore me. Scratch an(2020) search twitter
eorgeMWME Me too, fae Mom and Dad's. https://t.co/gkG9JAJAHL(2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
olk dae! His mum Peggy was my dad's sister, his other sister Seng(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
to fin a wee pixtur o ma step dad's sister, it's a belter Raiph. (2021) search twitter