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Use in varieties of Scots

mammies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences108 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of mammies in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
oot folk callt Vicky dyin and mammies covered in tattoos. No that a on page 7

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
he playgrund and wait fur yer mammies and daddies tae come and get on page 163

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
willnae be so keen oan playin mammies wi their dolls efter this. Mi on page xv
that they're mammies. But she's given Granny none on page 34

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
ran awa tae hide unner their mammies' peenies. And at nicht he wid on page 3

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
be suir thay wadna lat thair mammies nor thair dominies hear); an on page 129

1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
as a wean exactly why it was mammies' benefit book and no a daddie (2022) twitter link

@annieones tweeted
wis your age.Oor grannies an mammies were brought up acceptin miso (2021) twitter link

Doric

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
ae the times we’d jist play mammies n daddies wee oor wee bairns
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
gonnae be tough no seeing the mammies and daughters and sons eh. We(2020) search twitter