A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'grandwean'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grandweanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 grandwean in Corpus

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West Central

Steele, Gregor When Scotty said “Scunner”, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
And their wean’s grandwean’s wean’s grandwean,
’s wean’s grandwean,
And their grandwean’s weans, and their wean’s
And their grandwean’s weans, and their wean’s
And their grandwean’s grandweans and aa,
5 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
mah presents, Ahm the auldest grandwean so ah still get hunners ae sh on page 171

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ither cannae help oot wae the grandwean’s needs noo an again, whit
1 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
issed his dochter an then his grandwean. He marked that the twa Grann
1 matches

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