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The word 'girlfriend'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
girlfriendOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62110
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 55.2 12 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 girlfriend 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

@peediepuss tweeted
ady on, that's some teuchters girlfriend that is(2020)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
g time since Ah hid a serious girlfriend...fit if Ah've firgotten fit on page 51

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
uzzin aboot us meetin his new girlfriend. Deep doon ah wis pleased fur on page 75
s is Alana. She's Craig's new girlfriend's best pal. She's a cleaner a on page 83

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
al portfolio - someone hus a girlfriend in east lothian - aye ees he (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
greetin the day. His cousin's girlfriend took an ecstasy up the dancin on page 125
really know Wully's cousin's girlfriend. She wis ip fourth year at oo on page 126
me an Clicky are boyfriend an girlfriend but wur no. Ah'm sicka huvin on page 169

7 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
Clicky’s got a new girlfriend. He’s gaun oot wi ma cousin
y situation ah jist think yir girlfriend’s a weirdo enda story.
2 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
out, ‘Oor Wullie’s got a girlfriend, that’s no richt.’
‘A girlfriend? Oor Wullie wi’ a girlfrien
? Oor Wullie wi’ a girlfriend?’ Ah hud tae look at that.
3 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
posite him. Whos yince adorin girlfriend wis nae longer huddin his han on page 35

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
open that!’ he sais tae his girlfriend, Sarah who’s shakin her hei
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
, a lassie ah've never met, a girlfriend probably, is adjustin hur boo on page 6

1 matches

@jamieonkeys tweeted
iverson for coining the name 'girlfriend chord', which I've given a qu(2019)

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