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The word 'veterans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
veteransOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 veterans in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ds, ghillies hadg O pairts Ie Veterans A pony a yeat , pales cairt on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
oud of you all. Guid luck tae veterans an serving forces marching do(2018)
anion an assistance #dogs fur veterans wi PTSD in the Soldering On a(2019)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Grey auld veterans stiffen tae attention, on page 41

1 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
rtainly honoured the auld war veterans by bringin back the crippling(2020)
TV licences fae pensioner war veterans. Sheer hypocrisy.(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
rtainly honoured the auld war veterans by bringin back the crippling(2020)

South East (Borders)

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
s and less every year es mair veterans frae the twae world wars pass
1 matches

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