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The word 'females'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
femalesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 females in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ey aal lukk'd fur 'fun-loving females' and they'd aal fallen foul o on page 42

1 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
in black widow spiders...the females are brown and bigger the male (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
mentain the view that for aa females tae be happy an content wi th
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
tended nae tae attend and the females would be sitting there, arms (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
realised he wis surroondit by females. “Ye’re weemen!” he exc
tag in rut, pursuin terrified females aroon the huts - the Captain
2 matches

General Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
tae see a cleek atween ryall females an thae Scottish female curle on page 91

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Paternal genome drap-oot forders altruism in stieve populations, (Wiley Online Library 2022) Central, prose
t o altruism enactit by baith females and males, forby baith young-
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
eneuch stories aboot Scottish females, an certainly no Scottish Pak(2020)

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