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Use in varieties of Scots

pensioners Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 6.2 10.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1912 7 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 9 2

Occurrences of pensioners in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e trees. Near 'nuff a circle. Pensioners' hooses in the middle, in the on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
aboot me. Ah've hud auld age pensioners joinin Twitter fur the sole p on page 54

1 matches

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
an gied freely o his time tae pensioners' groups. He wis an authority on page 4

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
big lion statues where aw the pensioners usually si After ah'd et ma s on page 82
now, said Karen, It's aw pure pensioners an wee weans that live roon h on page 169

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
er borin bastarts hur age. No pensioners. They calle hur Bettie Bucket on page 79

1 matches

McCrory, Pat Lallans 57 - Jimsie’s Maw’s Soup, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
They had pensioners dreipin high wa's, on page 29

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
boot me. Ah’ve hud auld age pensioners joinin twiter fur the sole pu
1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
me ay the day, it’s largely pensioners an unemployed people in for a
1 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e probably scares maist o the pensioners roond here, ah hink she’s b
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
amazement of all the passing pensioners, no jist all the encouragemen (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
pavements - knockin awe the pensioners down - u missed that out lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
sel, Ah heard - owerchairgin pensioners an swickin fowk, Ah've nae do on page 35

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
he blower tae Ashvale fer the pensioners huddock. Wid rather starve th(2016) search twitter
an rent een o yer buses fer a pensioners day oot roond the distillerie(2017) search twitter
thinks am deen yon tinder fer pensioners every time she see's me on ma(2017) search twitter
ae the bowls. I've joined the pensioners travel club! ??(2017) search twitter
chunce fer a wee discount or pensioners prices(2018) search twitter
and 1 other occurrences.

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