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The word 'grown-ups'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
grown-upsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
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 3.3 1 1
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 13.3 10 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 grown-ups in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The grown-ups did the 'Grand March' and the on page 74

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
An’ the grown-ups got bletherin’ wi’ cuppie
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
there wis wan ither thing the grown-ups kent as weel, it wis this: th on page 33
e think o it. There were nine grown-ups and five bairns, fowerteen in on page 71
he door. Five bairns and nine grown-ups elbaed their wey in - and oc on page 73
hegither wi the five remainin grown-ups, follaed efter him. on page 117
ie. And there were jist three grown-ups, Mr and Mrs Teeveeheid and Gr on page 135

6 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
idna grow, we wouldna ever be grown-ups.' on page 4

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
three bairns wirnae used tae grown-ups bein nice tae them, and they on page 43
seemed like things that anely grown-ups ever had. For aw that she wis on page 72
t we're hauf the size o maist grown-ups," Klaus said. "Will thon no l on page 76

3 matches

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