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The word 'relatives'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
relativesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62014
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 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 relatives in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
from Shetland, or that I had relatives here. She told me too that sh on page 24

1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
nothin too grand. Mebbe Isa's relatives hiv got a business an could u on page 39

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
wee bairn A mind on meetin ma relatives fae Hawick an sayin what funn
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
pals but yi cannae choose yir relatives. on page 56
pals but yi cannae choose yir relatives, she said tae me, An it's no on page 169

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Or tak yer relatives, mind you, ye cannae aye pick on page 107

1 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
pals but yi cannae choose yir relatives, she said tae me, An it’s n
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
Nou, A hae relatives in England, includin some bor on page 80

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
rson other than yir immediate relatives could really like ye and that on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
As a wee boay, the American relatives were attractive tae us becaus on page 23

2 matches

General Central

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
the hale jing-bang uises the relatives wha an whilk that wis mebbe n
text haes been verb furms an relatives. Tho the computer haes made a
in his New Testament, wi wha relatives galore [2]. The ither argieme
ime has been taen tae get the relatives an verb concord richt, an no
4 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Hoscote, hed wrocht fur thaim relatives; whan hei hed wrocht i the ga
1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
) ma daughter took me tae her relatives’ buffet. There was a huge ta(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
kept sayin. The last ae Jocks relatives made the pilgrimage fae Fife. on page 79

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
an airmaments, weel-wishers, relatives, douce sympathisers, secretar on page 77

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
anny leeved at hame wae their relatives in oor country. Plus Grannie on page 46

1 matches

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