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Use in varieties of Scots

nephews Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1 4.5 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences72 3 1 0 0 1
Number of authors7 2 3 1 1

Occurrences of nephews 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

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
possible number o his ither 'nephews', I wisna coontin on onythin on page 72

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
nieces an nephews. on page 17

1 matches

Doric

Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - My Faither's Fowk, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
nephews. jist sons, on page 37

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he’d gie them tae his only nephews. The Laird said his brither H
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Drumneachie Ferm, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Doric, poetry
pen hoose fur stray nieces an nephews fa he lat bide fur their holi
1 matches

Orkney

Leonard, Ingrid Northwords Now 43 - Ingrid Leonard, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Orkney, poetry
Time wears on. Gret nephews an nieces on page 18

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
dnae thole her niece an three nephews.’
1 matches

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