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Use in varieties of Scots

mam's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.5 1 25.6 0 29.1 0 0
Number of occurrences242 17 0 5 0 0
Number of authors7 2 3 2

Occurrences of mam's in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
cannae staun bein the reason Mam's cryin. on page 12

1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
a braw Maw's Day/Mither's Day/Mam's Day, dependin oan whit dialec (2019) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Mam's still fat. She looks tired, b on page 96

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
AS BRAID'S IT'S LANG Mam's much heicher than you granny on page 15

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n: the girse wis knee-deep an mam's 'bonny' gairden wis in an aff on page 86

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Jist cause mam's interestit in different thing on page 34
lease! please!" pleaded Sam. "Mam's comin on...an even Grunnie." on page 39
ettos' lut aleen weerin them. Mam's sheen apairt fae her Sunday e on page 66
bonny wreaths aat hid graced Mam's coffin an see the funeral tay on page 78
arlour door an ging throwe te Mam's bedroom, smilin as Ah rn a ha on page 79
Also on pages 80
12 matches

Ireland, Mark Wi A Facey Like Yours, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
eel a bitty better aefter his mam's been yellin at him to get rid
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Davina, "I remember what your mam's cooking was like, all these y on page 21
lood at da expression ipo da mam's face, "Dunna worry, ah'm hedd on page 31
ferent, shü just laached ati Mam's face, an baaled her knickers on page 46

3 matches

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
At last, hit's passed Mam's dryness tests an wir ready ta
uff foo a dockens an sooriks. Mam's no done yet; she's rakin doon
2 matches

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