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The word 'nurses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nursesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.83518
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 4
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 nurses in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Nurses aal the coughs and chills. on page 23

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
parent? Is hid no creches an nurses whan wiss wi bairns maan wirk on page 69

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ller in her purse tae pye fur nurses, an bein ower ill tae move, t
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Please join me in wishing the nurses care assistants an carers fa (2020)

General Northern

Philip, George Luikin Back, (Jas Gaesham 2008 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Doric, prose
ooiver, they manished via the nurses tae bring me a fouth o dolly on page 6

3 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
haud a nurses hand. If you feel ony pain ji
eel ony pain jist squeeze the nurses hand an
you hiv tae haud the nurses hand. You widnae believe this
mannie nurses hand I got tae haud."
4 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Fower wee nurses stertit fussin aboot wi trays
id gae ye the scunner bit the nurses quatelik
2 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
means passin up shaggin @ few nurses. But thur's some folk I widna on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
omated front doors. Doacturs, nurses, and visitors, alike. Young, on page 176

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
terpret mair richtly than the nurses.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
N 29t. o Mey, bairns' nursery nurses wis on strike at Campie Prima
But nursery nurses need mair dosh!
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ig high beds where yi lie, an nurses take yir temperature or yir b on page 151
e an tolt me, right after the nurses came an took her back tae the on page 153
sed an it's maistly cause the nurses are watchin her every move: s on page 154

5 matches

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
yi propose. Mak fairmers and nurses and fowk wi disabeilities, an
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
IT professionals, but jiners, nurses, posties, bus-drivers, cleane on page 10
rers an university lecturers, nurses an social warkers, waitresses on page 105

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
. We had aw’ sorts, Nursery Nurses, Engineers, Secretarial Lingu
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“We're nurses,” Beatrice sayed.
“We're nurses,” Beatrice sayed.
2 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
s. Ah relay whit ah tellt the nurses.
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
s window. The doctor says the nurses will be in at his back tae re on page 86
contact. She smiles. Once the nurses leave, she comes over. on page 88

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
owdit roon, but there wis nae nurses nur doactors nur nuhin, ther
1 matches

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