A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

unkan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 0 0 129.2 52.3 0 0
Number of occurrences220 0 13 9 0 0
Number of authors10 8 2

Occurrences of unkan 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

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
en accused o witchcraft wirna unkan. Maggie could been her great on page 34

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
He didno like whin unkan folk disturbed his morning's on page 78

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The streets are fill o unkan folk and shops bide open late on page 29
e fireside when sheu haard an unkan soond. on page 35
ate the road - Here comes an unkan larry wi an interestan load - on page 65

3 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Some unkan pathogens on page 88

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Some folk I kent, some unkan tae me, on page 26

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
anything tae dae wae anything unkan or queer, bekis they cheust d
de tae suggest that queer and unkan things wid soon stert tae hap
ed the first sign o sometheen unkan. A cat, readan a map. For a p
a lock o folk gaan aboot wae unkan claes on. Folk in cloaks. Mr
4 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
thir curteens trimsan fae an unkan hand.
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
ts an registirs (whitiver the unkan, bliree distinkshins atween t
1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
unkan, so he turned her aboot. on page 18

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
m is affen traetit as sumthin unkan, whaaras monolingualism is tr on page 19
as you, unkan fokk, in formal situations, e on page 55
s Standirt English a lok mair unkan as Shaetlan fir dis pairt on page 75
min! Da Germanic languages is unkan compared wi maist idders aroo on page 85
verbs in dat wye looks braali unkan fae da Standirt English wye. on page 95
Also on pages 100
7 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
rope. Dis maks StE a lok mair unkan as Shætlan fir dis pairt o d

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