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The word 'uncles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unclesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22014
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 31.4 5 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 uncles in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
is persuaded tae join his twa uncles in dir beeldin business whin on page 37

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Thule Revisited, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
uncles, bridders.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
Nae Aunties or Uncles, ma Ma or ma Da!
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
grandfaither’s, aunties and uncles, skail is oot an ye’ve sax l(2019)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
is fu eh great folk...mah fav Uncles family aw brought up in the p (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
A' yer aunties an' uncles rally roon
1 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
to drink. I went with my dad, uncles and siblings when the women w(2020)

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ither kin?' Matilda speired. 'Uncles or aunties or grannies wha ca on page 192

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
id, Ma cousins an ma aunts an uncles an aw that. Widyi want tae se on page 56

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
meh uncles, meh fathir, on page 17

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e gang an tell his aunties an uncles, an afore ye wuid think it po on page 67

1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
We loved wir uncles. Larry wis deid handsome an h on page 76

5 matches

General Central

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Ma uncles an aunties an grannie an gram on page 44

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
tell his sons that they were uncles again, an pray God, for a lot
the past sixty years, wi his uncles an kizzens daein weel in busi
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
sae wis twae o my mither’s uncles, Alec Young, an Alec Smith.
1 matches

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