A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

grandmither Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 5.7 1.5 19.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1511 1 2 0 1 0
Number of authors11 7 1 2 1

Occurrences of grandmither 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.

Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
les. At the heid, she sat her grandmither's crystal ball. Aw the world on page 1

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
ke - a horse an cairt lik ma grandmither haed. Yer dwynin yer life awa on page 2

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
year nou, an A speired o his grandmither if he wis talkin Scots or Eng
1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
* The grandmither o a faimily wis aft-times ken
1 matches

Heather, Alistair The ghaist lichts, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
ee this!” Her mither — ma grandmither — wis pyntin oot the sculle
till you see this,” says ma grandmither ance mair, an ance mair the b
a puckle year syne, whan her grandmither haed caa’d her tae the wind
witness tae these lichts. Ma grandmither saw it, wir neebors in the cl
4 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
rdin tae her, it wis mair her Grandmither Tongue that was sittin dorman
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ly 13 mile fae Glesca) but ma grandmither stid wae us and she wis fae t(2020) search twitter
molach95 @tartanroots My auld grandmither used tae sae 'shin' when she (2020) search twitter

Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ousin Ellen's grandfaither an grandmither came fae the Caribbean, part on page 57

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
didna hae a clue. tf his own grandmither said hid, then hid shurley mu on page 79

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
ife o the ferm asked me great grandmither ‘Wid thoo be blide o a swin
1 matches

Southern

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
Kilmeny, lass, it’s me, yer grandmither.”
1 matches

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