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The word 'mither-in-law'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mither-in-lawOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 32.7 10 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mither-in-law in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ommon link? They hiv me for a mither-in-law on page 15

6 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sighed as he thocht aboot his mither-in-law, Gertie, an aa her weirdy-wil on page 34
an delirious as he heard his mither-in-law's camera, clickin awa, captur on page 42

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Nae suner hid he gaen nur the mither-in-law cam hame frae mercat sikkin h
anny gyangs back hame, an the mither-in-law is wytin, wintin tae ken far
2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
e in the hoose here. His auld mither-in-law bade in wi him, auld Mrs Maga
hissel wisnae aboot. His auld mither-in-law wis hame, but, lyin in the be
2 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
y bairn's a healthy bairn. Ma mither-in-law, weel guid-mither as we cry t on page 4

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The mither-in-law's strawberry flan o it, on page 3758

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Then there was Margaret, her mither-in-law, on hir knees scrubbin the fl on page 51

1 matches

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