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The word 'older'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
olderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72920
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 22.3 17 10
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 2
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 older in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
rkney. I'm thinking mostly of older folk and the most common cont(2020)

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Sres @QMUL_HSS Fair enjoyed e older loon’s story fae Portsoy abo (2019) twitter link

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
it a bit I thought. Having an older HEED with gid English swayed (2020)

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
The strange thing is that his older sister, who has always attend on page 1

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
ken's essay "How to Pronounce Older Scots", whaur the'r a explana
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
In ‘Older Scots Lexis’ in The Edinbur
Borrowing from Latin was in Older Scots frequently carried out
2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
agine,' she replies, "They're older guys as well,' on page 21

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
oup uses tae direct away from older foik or working class people. on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
embers a man he respected, an older man, telling on page 18

1 matches

McNeil, Andrew Lallans 58 - Carnegie’s Turning, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
The wuid older than Andrew himsel. on page 122

1 matches

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
nglish, the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, (DOST) hes, on page 59

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
nary an the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue are examples on page 12

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
dard English alphabet, but in Older and Middle Scots the addition on page 17

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
o Scots, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the Scott on page 14
aised for A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) in the on page 15
stin an problematic feature o Older Scots (an it still bedivvils on page 16

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
contrast, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue is fair crawl
esence in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. The new edit
onary and A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue in a quotatio
ots word still survives among older folk'’ That maks me gey aul
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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ebbe ane o the “non-mobile, older rural males” or NORMS that
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
wirkin wi A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) is the
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
tit in ‘A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
editors o A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue.
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@jax6754 tweeted
cht orf tae sleeps cos as now older think need mare sleep!??xxx(2015)

South West (Galloway)

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Her older-twin cam thro an a' on page 158

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
o them as much as the kids or older folk? Noo oot, my illustrated(2020)
Burns. Yowes. Most likely an older traditional courting song wri(2020)

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