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The word 'nursery'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nurseryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.43018
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 1
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 17.9 7 3
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 7
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of nursery in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Ah'm learned him aal the nursery rhymes and some bonny Sankey on page 55

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
some shooglie, radio-active nursery rhyme; on page 9

1 matches

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
stay and play session at E’s nursery. No swimmin fur mammy and an (2018) twitter link
My peerie viking aa set fur nursery daday!! #uphellyaa #vikings… (2018) twitter link
E had cheese scones at nursery daday and wanted more at home (2018) twitter link
gh cough* has been paintin at nursery daday ?? xxx… https://t.co/N (2018) twitter link
Walking to nursery daday and since da peeriest… (2018) twitter link

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
games room turnt inte Mabel's nursery. on page 92

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
rned the likes o this fremmit nursery rhyme:
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3 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Fareweel tae Wallyford, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
Ma nursery got me aff tae a guid stert
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ON 29t. o Mey, bairns' nursery nurses wis on strike at Campi
But nursery nurses need mair dosh!
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ks for aw ages o bairns, frae nursery richt up tae Advanced Highers
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Twa, three wee anes frae the Nursery Schuil, on page 219

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Twa, three wee anes frae the Nursery Schuil, on page 12

1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
hud broken in and wis singin nursery rhymes. It wis aboot time tha
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
rentices. We had aw’ sorts, Nursery Nurses, Engineers, Secretaria
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Books were aw ower the nursery flair! on page 158

2 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
t's time for him tae gaun tae nursery, he gets up and wanner the re on page 23

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
'He just loves the nursery!' she replies, twirlin hur st on page 11

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ae cast a lang shadda is free nursery schuil proveision. Wi nursery on page 9

2 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
ondary education. GME fae the nursery tae finishin at the primary s
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
s is the sign for the town’s nursery - the Scottish Rascal! That (2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
e no truck with it. Hence the nursery-slope rhetoric today - she's (2022) twitter link

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
airt o' the education system (Nursery, Primary, Tertiary an/ir Adul on page 6
level o' the education systen(nursery, primary, on page 22

2 matches

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