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The word 'seventy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
seventyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.72916
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 35.5 8 3
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 51.2 10 4
AYR - Ayrshire
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)
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of seventy in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Fur ah'm seventy three - and me lad's only ni on page 38

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
Seventy per cent o Scots weemin wark,
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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Weel, she wiz jist seventy, on page 64

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
the same money he wid hae got seventy bags fae Jonsar
mind awa back aboot nineteen seventy echt, fin we
2 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'Seventy somethin.' Nacbody said onyth on page 1

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
soon made her move. She spent seventy two pound aw in: she bought a on page 53
Ah said, How much. She said, Seventy pound. Ah said, Aye awright, on page 78
said Yvonne got seventy-two percent ah nearly cheered on page 169

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Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
nly ticket ah hud in nineteen seventy four) wis doon the stair. Hid
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Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
us is gonnae mak aeyhing near seventy the way we’re abusing wur l
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Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
' jeest et ri askin' price a' seventy five quid. Ri lums wis aw blo
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Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
powerin seventy looms an a workforce on page 23

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lnerable person - he is over seventy ...”
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
p there. Ah've been tryin fur seventy-odd year. He either disnae li on page 8

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
how can they exaggerate that? Seventy, to be precise' on page 36

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Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
. We pelt it, never less than seventy, an the Trossachs start whizz on page 3

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Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
, yer right enough. How aboot seventy five/ twenty five?” said Bi
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Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Clydeside work-in in nineteen seventy-wan when Jimmy Reid gave his
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Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s just another two hunner an seventy-five tae go an we’re aw squ
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Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
t ah kin of course but ah’m seventy wan years of age. Ah’ll huv
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Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Then, oan the seventy-second minute, the substitute
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Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
orious day in August, back in seventy-nine. Aye, it’s a queer thi
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Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
there. Ah’ve been tryin fur seventy odd year. He either disnae li
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General Central

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ly, utterly, arse over elbow, seventy seven ways tae Strichen and b(2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
o' Norlin Airlan at hes aboot seventy bans, Flute Ban' Association on page 39

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