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The word 'nursing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nursingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6127
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 94.2 3 1
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 nursing in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
t story but an exploration of nursing techniques in World War...a c(2018)
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Association received 10(2018)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
l, bit maist oÂ’the time IÂ’m nursing a hangover fae the previous n(2020)

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
airged frae the hospital to a nursing hame,
In the nursing hame room, Doris infused tea,
2 matches

Glasgow

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
aun: 'It's yersel, Eve, Still nursing?' on page 12

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
he gas fire in the livin room nursing her wrath tae keep it warm â€
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
eeleggit stuil in the middle, nursing a babby: the cook wis leanin on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
For kist or nursing hame, on page 20

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
eelegget stool in the middle, nursing a weeyin, the cook wus Jeanin on page 58
s!" An wi that, shae stairtet nursing hir weeyin agane, singin a ki on page 60
had workt oot the richt wye o nursing it (whuch wus tae twist it in on page 61

3 matches

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