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Use in varieties of Scots

aunty Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.7 21.6 6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences4742 4 0 1 0 0
Number of authors10 8 1 1

Occurrences of aunty in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Angela n Abigail, ma maw n ma aunty. on page 37

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ah goat stoapped wae Craig's Aunty, Sharon. Ken? her who's obses on page 170

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ds, 'Got your eyes peeled fur Aunty Cathy's sexy y polis pals?" on page 2
fter years o braces. 'Thanks, Aunty Cathy!' she says, turnin tae on page 7
ven possible? Is this because Aunty Cathy's an officer?' on page 25
it's happened. She's only had Aunty Cathy and Leanne's side o the on page 27
e or anyone else. Granny told Aunty Sandra, Aunty Cathy and anyon on page 29
Also on pages 30, 33, 34, 35, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 85, 91
28 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
r eneuch when ye lend a lug: 'Aunty Mag says tae me,'Puir wee sno on page 54

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ends up a tait lik Chrissie's Aunty Mary, wha thocht 'a Mills and on page 90

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Chianti, papped aff tae your Aunty
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
on, so we got decanted tae ma Aunty Marion’s hoose on the Ayrsh
he wis labouring and sending Aunty Marion a postal order wi’ o
Aunty Marion wis brilliant. She had
nything tae dae wi’ us noo. Aunty Marion looked a bit like ma m
nd twisted ma arm and said if Aunty Marion kicked us oot because
8 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
@tanzymc Ma Aunty Ann aye knitted me a new bala(2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
thinkin o the fusky that gart Aunty Nell's cousin's man tae sheet on page 51

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
the grumphie; it myndit him o Aunty May’s fite grumphie, Sottar
ottars, at Birse. Sottars wis Aunty May’s pet name fur the bree
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
fitiver gift God gies ye, her Aunty said.
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
thing today was becoming an 'aunty' to the newest member of clan(2014) search twitter