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The word 'newborn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
newbornOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of newborn in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
A craitur newborn tae this life on page 19

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
oks, da sea and (so I'm told) newborn furseals.(2016)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the byre she tuik tent o the newborn calfies, learnin them tae soo
1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
She pits a silver penny in newborn babies’ prams. 50p if she l
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
But the youngest, newborn, een sae bricht on page 88

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
ked at us. Ah've never seen a newborn baby afore and ah thought the
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Ma newborn cry. on page 8

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
linen rag an watched wrinkled newborn features emerge frae the fold on page 33
skin. What was she tae gie a newborn wean? on page 34
weans, the onlie ma wi'oot a newborn babbie tae tend tae. Maisie m on page 47

3 matches

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