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Use in varieties of Scots

elder Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words21.8 24.7 9 129.2 0 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences7048 6 13 0 2 1
Number of authors18 9 4 2 2 1

Occurrences of elder in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
adrunner, cos he's rapid. The elder wans hud told us aboot the po on page 3
YT or YTP, it means the same. Elder wans tended tae know it as th on page 4
oot wae they Toi wans. Aw our elder wans caught him doon the stre on page 5
er lied aboot it. A pulled an elder burd, ma big cousin's pal. Pa on page 6
its tae sell aff aw them. The elder wans in his day wur mad cunts on page 10
Also on pages 11, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 31, 33, 39, 44, 58, 60
38 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
he was an elder; on page 129

1 matches

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
wir met wi pally, elder gentlemen on page 52

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an had been turned doun as an elder o the kirk sax year syne, whe on page 52

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
s a real devout Christian, an elder o his ain kirk. Nou Jock had on page 34
'Naw, naw,' cried the elder yin o the pair, as the men bu on page 98

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The elder disnae spear the birch on page 81

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
looman that on takkin up as a elder o the Kirk finnds hissel in o
gither, as wi me bein made an elder. I was made muckle o, thae da
2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
-en o her ferteelity whan her elder cleckin had lang been at heic
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
nicht’s carousin when a kirk elder saw him an spiered, “Is that(2020) search twitter

Doric

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
wis a yalla yitey, though an elder quinie caad it a yaldie. on page 37

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
ti the kirk, far he'd been an elder for mair years than he could on page 8

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
assenger seat, as befitted an elder o the tribe. "The hill's are on page 51

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ce telt me he'd eence been an elder o the Kirk o Scotland till he on page 72

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
euch tae pit in the plate the elder wid haund roon inbye the kirk
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ticed movement aneath the big elder bush. Standin up wi a groan M
1 matches

Orkney

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
I githered o the elder-flooer, the elder-flooer, the on page 18

4 matches

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
I githered o the elder-flooer, the elder-flooer, the on page 33

8 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
a elder. Dagmar's maed a faimly on Wo on page 16

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
cultural Socitie: hei wis ane Elder i the Snoot Frei Kirk, an
1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
deafie aged from birth intae elder share the exact same experien(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
G.F. Savage-Armstrong. A Kirk elder dannerin hame gets a quare fr (2018) twitter link