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The word 'maternal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
maternalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6127
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 84.8 7 2
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 maternal in Corpus

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General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
wife, displayin somethin o a maternal bent, insistit Bert dae somet on page 118

1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
plicatiouns about misdireckit maternal instincks (A want ma Mammie!)
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
am biased,” he turnt on his maternal uncle, than shut up, shocked
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
former miners' raws whaur ma maternal friens steyed - the Carruthe on page 23

1 matches

General Central

@ThonJacobite tweeted
d. Ah've completed twa trees (maternal) and noo startin paternal. Ab (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
he Haugh, wi ma faither an ma maternal grandfaither. Descendents o W
ae ferst kizzen o ma maternal grandfaither wis the Herd it
wis ma substitute maternal grandfaither, efter ma muther
level. Ma maternal grandpaurents set up hoose i
wis, is ae matter o fack, ma maternal grandfaither’s step-faither
6 matches

@officialAliRed tweeted
Weel din that man! His maternal grandparents were foster care(2019)

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