A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grandfather Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.2 3.7 11.2 0 0 21.9 0
Number of occurrences167 7 0 0 2 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of grandfather in Corpus

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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

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

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

Doric

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

Southern

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