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Use in varieties of Scots

fifties Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.5 7.7 4.5 0 11.6 0 4.4
Number of occurrences2115 3 0 2 0 1
Number of authors18 13 3 1 1

Occurrences of fifties in Corpus

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Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
hous he haed dwalt in sen the Fifties. Nou, whit wi bein furth o th on page 20

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
air, even though she's in her fifties. Both ae them ir formidable e on page 50

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tylishly dressed woman in her fifties. The sweat is runnin wildly d on page 51

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
mer. This wis a mannie in his fifties in dungarees, a gaberdine rai on page 101

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nk's a wee tiny wummin in her fifties wi dyed red hair an she's dea on page 83

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
t that's no changed since the fifties are the bricks and mortar o t on page 80

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
s an apprentice laddie in the fifties warkin at whit is noo the res
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
IN the late fifties at the Henry Robb shipyaird i
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Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
West Africa. Scotland in the fifties, grippit wi the postwar auste
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Purdie, David C. Lallans 59 - Boswell’s Coort, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
In the mids o the Fifties, whan I wis a prentice,
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Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ullar, a spinster in her late fifties wi blonde hair that wis turni
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Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
e tae Scottish culture in the fifties an sixties wis gey patchy, wh
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tic wumman, maybe in her late fifties, jynt thaim, acknawledged Hsi
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
aboot aw the wey back tae the fifties, n that. There wis even a rec
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@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@janiesherb The are. I’m mid fifties now, and I’ve started tae sl(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
them sit doon in boorachies o fifties." They did jist att, an bad t on page 95

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Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
nd ye, the louns are in thair fifties – in fact, Dod will be saxt
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Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
the floods back in the twenty fifties, packed themsels on rusty fis
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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
e whin shü cam here i da mid fifties. Very highly educated, wi a f on page 13
l it finally petered oot i da fifties and sixties." on page 77

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Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Scotlan aroon tha sieventeen-fifties, an tuk a wee fairm o lan bel on page 7

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