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The word 'deun'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deunOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10324
ORK - Orkney 318 32 4
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 deun in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
, ready tae see whut could be deun. on page 14
n the comer till the deed wis deun. Sheu snushed an gaed a bogle on page 15
afore anything else could be deun." on page 17
Whitever the job deun be anywan ither, on page 69
"No bother, aam deun id a minys the time" on page 70
Also on pages 77, 86, 95, 96, 97
13 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
A Woman's Wark is Nivver Deun on page 23
is weeman's wark must noo be deun bi man! on page 24
"I need a bit o cleaneen deun. Hid disna need that much. on page 25
"No sooner said than deun, lass!" and Sadie glowed wi p on page 36
And, when the money's aal bit deun, sheu hands twa pound tae me on page 39
Also on pages 46, 48, 60, 65
10 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
re - an whan the infodump is deun hid's like a patchwark: twa-m on page 73
nno right accept whit maan be deun, so thir tellan taels instaed on page 99
so sheu disno greet. Beeteen deun sheu lies, mask tae the metal on page 145
n. She pits up a wird. Sheu's deun whit sheu can deu. An than he on page 153
r the laanch, seean hoo hid's deun. Sheu's thinkan on tellan Ast on page 154

5 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
m folk here, an am absolutely deun tryin tae be reasonable an ac (2020) twitter link
doot there's no muckle tae be deun. Hid's global. Thoo hard the (2020) twitter link
@d_anderson878 @molach95 'Am deun' in Orcadian. The ..eu. sound(2020)
@helenmoncrieff Weel deun pittan yin intae wurds(2020)

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