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The word 'grandparents'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grandparentsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6189
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.7 11 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 grandparents in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
a family story aboot me great grandparents visiting a ferm on the Lyde R
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s father is and liklihood his grandparents as well from his father's sid(2018)

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
rd o fae their ain parents an grandparents aboot pre-NHS times is whit t on page 96

2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
dison. Stephen's both sets ae grandparents ir fae Ireland n he's never g on page 8

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
baby when his grandparents had come ower tae Scotland in
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ed the bed tae the fower auld grandparents because they were sae auld an on page 5
d ben the hoose tae his fower grandparents' room tae listen tae their st on page 9
k wis the auldest o the fower grandparents. He wis ninety-sax and a hauf on page 12
thday!' yowled the fower auld grandparents, as Chairlie cam ben intae th on page 32
And yon wis why aw the grandparents and parents in the room were on page 33
Also on pages 34, 42, 56
9 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
s leimitit tae veisits tae ma Grandparents i Banchory or Montrose, an en
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Crick @hazelglasgow Leids; my grandparents teuk thare hinniemuin(?) i Ba(2020)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
el din that man! His maternal grandparents were foster carers for decade(2019)