A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'paternal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
paternalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 1
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 paternal in Corpus

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Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
s. Taz is laughin, in a proud paternal way, like his wee boy hud com on page 20

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Paternal genome drap-oot forders altruism in stieve populations, (Wiley Online Library 2022) Central, prose
r altruism in species wi male paternal genome drap-oot (PGD), takkin
that depends on the extent o paternal genome kythin. 2) Unner PGD,
2 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
es (maternal) and noo startin paternal. Absolutely love it (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Blackcock Ha, hoose, whaur ma paternal grandfaither bade; whan hei w
A’m richt, Yid’s paternal Grandfaither hed his howdien
m telt at Yid’s great,great paternal
Ma paternal grandpaurents endit thair day
4 matches

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