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The word 'grandweans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grandweansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
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 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 grandweans in Corpus

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West Central

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

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
colour, are plannin fer their grandweans. Votin NO didnae turn hauf o on page 96

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
h don't deserve Jackie an the grandweans, an they deserve better than on page 11

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
don’t deserve Jackie an the grandweans, an they deserve better than
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
When ma grandweans wur younger, they never left on page 77

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
had been fashed at haein nae grandweans tae show aff tae her social c
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
Beebies and watch yon wae yer grandweans. Its like yer trippin aff yer (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
for the grandweans she niver saw, on page 22

1 matches

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