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The word 'mun'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
munOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.2208
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 2
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 mun in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
ds ey cry it; her man, Bryan, mun be deein affa weel – Margit
ian Region Transport’. They mun hae thocht a lot o him ti dee
2 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 85 - D.I.Y. Doctor , (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'Quate, mun. Stop rairin like a muckle Je on page 35
'Be quate, mun.' on page 36
'Yeuch, dicht yer mooth, mun, whit a slitter,' he seyd. on page 37

3 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
oot that view o Scots noo, oo mun be geyleis contentit wi the o on page 59

2 matches

@ClashCityClarky tweeted
esong @DrMDempster Weel duin, mun!(2019)
or @ScotNational Thanks awfy, mun!(2019)
boyle @pressjournal Nice yin, mun!(2019)
ird @Stan_And_Ollie Nice yin, mun - well deserved!(2019)
@joshtjordan Thanks awfy, mun!(2018)
and 2 other occurrences.

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@malty118 wheeshed mun(2012)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
night. Jist pt yir sloths oan mun.(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the third-world mun. Here whaur Joes field on page 48

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
ids forby eh. Maun mak siccar mun ??(2020)
dry2 Jings no, it's fir weans mun! Nae sweeries, jist braw fun (2020)
But Priestland's furder east mun(2020)

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