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Use in varieties of Scots

mither-in-law Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.6 2 15 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences154 10 0 0 0 1
Number of authors7 3 3 1

Occurrences of mither-in-law in Corpus

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Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
y bairn's a healthy bairn. Ma mither-in-law, weel guid-mither as we cry t on page 4

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The mither-in-law's strawberry flan o it, on page 3758

1 matches

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
e in the hoose here. His auld mither-in-law bade in wi him, auld Mrs Maga
hissel wisnae aboot. His auld mither-in-law wis hame, but, lyin in the be
2 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ommon link? They hiv me for a mither-in-law on page 15

6 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sighed as he thocht aboot his mither-in-law, Gertie, an aa her weirdy-wil on page 34
an delirious as he heard his mither-in-law's camera, clickin awa, captur on page 42

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Nae suner hid he gaen nur the mither-in-law cam hame frae mercat sikkin h
anny gyangs back hame, an the mither-in-law is wytin, wintin tae ken far
2 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Then there was Margaret, her mither-in-law, on hir knees scrubbin the fl on page 51

1 matches

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