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The word 'eighties'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
eightiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3116
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 30.1 6 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of eighties in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Noo Davie's a man in his late eighties, bit is a young man he wis in on page 37

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Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
the West Mainland in the late eighties he hid a hunder visitors the
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Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
Shetland in the seventies and eighties were heroes o thur profession
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General Northern

Petrie, Kimberley Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Letter Tae Ma Younger Sel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
and I da mean fan yer in yer Eighties, on page 25

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West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
n we wis lads in the nineteen eighties. Ah mean, niver min’ Jock T
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Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ae be different, eh says. The eighties, that wis the time fir folkie on page 3

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Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
aboot six months in the late eighties. The carpet underfoot is thre
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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
n. The acid-house ay the late eighties an the illegal raves we’d a
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Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
h’m no mistaken - standard eighties fare.
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