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The word 'granmither'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
granmitherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7195
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central
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 granmither in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Ma granmither on page 114

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
oot Wallie cottars, ane o her granmither's dairymen in the toun, hame
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
, aa that I hae as keepsake o granmither's fowk, fa traivelled ower th
rdnar bonnie. I speired at my granmither aince, foo we ained nae jewel
secunt pairt o the story,' ma granmither continued, 'I didna hear frae
3 matches

General Northern

Skinner, Alison C. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Leaves, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Tucked at the back o her granmither's wardrobe, aneth piles o she on page 22
her granmither's knapsack, hid dried aa crin on page 23

9 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
riakin spak a lot aboot thair granmither. This expiriment maun gae awa
ha crossed the river, wis the granmither o Ragoran, the hunter ...”
had been brocht up be an auld granmither. She kent aa that aareadies,
3 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
n in Gawston sae lang, but ma granmither aye hained it, an sae did her on page 23

2 matches

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