A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'graandfaider'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
graandfaiderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.862
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 graandfaider in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Wir graandfaider said his midder wis telt him on page 7
ne at his great, great, great graandfaider wis lost aff 0, an he wis gya on page 55
ur da freezer. Du'll mind his graandfaider, Lowrie Manson a Setter," he on page 63

5 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
he says, wi da very wye o his graandfaider, ‘Dis is nae place for flyt
1 matches

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