A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'elderly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
elderlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4148
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 elderly in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
owrie wis da hidmist ane), an elderly nephew in New Zealand heired on page 8

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
easier oan the stamacks o the elderly an infirmed te hae their hivv on page 46

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n then deprived vulnerable an elderly people an maetbanks o eerins (2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Even the elderly are entitled tae a wash" ah p on page 38
is coordinated taewards this elderly guy who's aristocratic wrinkl on page 50
the use ae euthanasia fur the elderly. on page 121
An elderly, softly spoken voice replies on page 144

5 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
she’s forty-twa year auld. Elderly primagravida, assumin the loo
1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
inions held by masel an other elderly people, preferrin insteid tae
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
he tears fae ma eyes. It's ma elderly neighbour, Bettie. . She alwa on page 45
When ah arrive in the ward, elderly women sleep like weans in mos on page 87

2 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
looking so like a man that eg elderly women can't see she is not a (2022) twitter link
self-sufficient Scotland, ma elderly Mawe his tae hiv nae cooked t (2022) twitter link

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