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The word 'seeventy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seeventyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
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
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of seeventy in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
painfil, as dat winter nearly seeventy year fae sine. . on page 18
t wis da first time in nearly seeventy year at I wis spokken tae a l on page 20

2 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
70 seeventy on page 66

1 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
confeedent. I hed cleared wan seeventy in trainin, nae problem. Bit
r da bar ta be raised tae wan seeventy wan.
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ble sat Granny Bruce. She wis seeventy fower year auld, wi a kind, r
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
y-three noo, luikin mair like seeventy, still the boozed-up orral he
1 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
wir. An in iss wye, man lives seeventy year. E first thirty are his on page 26

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ocht by me fur twa hunner and seeventy-eicht pund and sellt fur wan on page 45
'Nine hunner and _ seeventy-four, Matilda said richt awa. on page 65

2 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - The Sycamore at Calton, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
At Calton, whaur it jynes the Seeventy-Six,
1 matches

General Central

Cameron, Peter Lallans 58 - The Cornfields o Lowdie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
n, and the hawthorn flourish, seeventy year wede awa. on page 47

1 matches

Reider O'Doom Aye!, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2013) Central, poetry
Bit it micht only last seeventy year.
1 matches

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