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The word 'growen-ups'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
growen-upsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9233
ORK - Orkney
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 28.9 22 2
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 growen-ups in Corpus

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General Northern

Philip, George Tales Fae The Doric Side - Winter, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
An waatch growen-ups wi tichtened braith an limb on page 80

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
this growen-up aince wis. Aw growen-ups were bairns aforesyne (thou g on page 7
shawed my maisterwark tae the growen-ups, an speired gif they were fle on page 9
o th boa constrictor, sae the growen-ups coud see it clear. They ay ne on page 10
tlins wer, dingit doun by the growen-ups whan I wis sax year auld, an on page 12
because o whit he wis wearin. Growen-ups are like that. on page 19
Also on pages 20, 21, 29, 42, 44, 45, 49, 58, 59
21 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e hievens shoudna be left tae growen-ups acause thay mak it dreich. Dr
1 matches

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