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The word 'shona'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shonaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7129
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 shona in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
@shonamain Hi Shona. I met a lass that knows you (2014)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
@shonamain Ahh thanks Shona! Sending warmest smoorikens u(2018)

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
@BanffAcademyBXA Mony thanks, Shona. Beautiful singin..me an the (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
sang wis gaun tae be sung bi Shona Donaldson frae Huntly. He add
clar oor thochts will gaun wi Shona if an when she wins her wey o
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@JackGilchrist__ seeing its u shona - a hope they dae the bizz (2021) twitter link

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
Wee Shona McCrumb on page 7

3 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
an aboot the braes wi his dug Shona. Tony's wabsteid gies a bit i on page 65

1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
who will be singing tonight! Shona/Iona. Baith singers. Baith fa(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
So Shona's lost aa her inhibitions? Aw(2020)

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