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The word 'grannies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
granniesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.32118
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of grannies in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
shü got, ane fae each a her grannies at shü wid want ta wear whin on page 25

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De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
Maist grannies is fine, kindly, obligin aald
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De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
an dey baith realised at der grannies wis sisters: dey wir second c
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
gweed enough granny as far's grannies go on page 15

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ons, ye cuid say that mugging grannies wis his main recreational pur
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
peired. 'Uncles or aunties or grannies wha came tae see ye?' on page 192

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@annieones tweeted
u Len,when a wis your age.Oor grannies an mammies were brought up ac (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
rs cultural an aw loued their grannies, but hou come it's no been th on page 74

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
buses, eavesdrapin on grannies. on page 38

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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
efteraw. Cos yae kin bet yur grannies pension oan the fact that ma
. Ma mooth feels drier than a grannies wrinkly auld cunt. And ma sto
2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
d grandfaithers, the twa auld grannies, Chairlie's faither, Chairlie on page 6

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Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
Maist grannies are douce, couthie, helpfu au on page 2

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Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
run and hame, ae bairnies and grannies anaw. Scots is a leid ae oor on page 3

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Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
their wurds? Efter mentionin grannies, the playgrun an humour, she
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Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
dwean. He marked that the twa Grannies were sippin tea thegither an
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@billykayscot tweeted
Mystery Tours on buses? At ma grannies in Bowhill in Fife in the lat(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
in Embra the day! There were grannies gettin flung aff buses, Katie (2019) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
rand new mannies, an wet eyed grannies, on page 107

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Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
. Babies labelled on arrival, grannies cal tae thir shilbit banes, w on page 24

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General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
aiphsays 'Ate up, yur at your grannies' as they say here????! (2021) twitter link