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The word 'shoon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shoonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7159
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 256.1 5 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 56.2 4 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shoon in Corpus

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Shetland

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
hape comin taewards wis and I shoon noteesed I wisna da only wan
1 matches

General Northern

Milligan, John Lallans 68 - Fu Brawlie Kythe Their Hair, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, poetry
She'd a pvc goon an pvc shoon an pvc ower her heid on page 40

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
e aw these year and buyin yer shoon and yer claes!" She tellt me on page 194

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
wi shoon lik boats. An yet, he's the v on page 117

1 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
Wi ribbond curls and polished shoon on page 53

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Ah hae mony auld shoon on page 47

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Or stampin shoon, A doot an fear on page 6
ha gresses cranshed unner her shoon. on page 10
as tha end o tha day whan his shoon skited on tha glaur an he fel on page 13
Skinkin owre MacCassey's shoon. on page 51
As tha clabber sooks at his shoon he sees it aa - on page 53

5 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
oot a culfed up #sheuch an my shoon skited in the #glaur: I'm up (2014) twitter link
en. Were there stanes in your shoon INLA? http://t.co/IjC3JesIRD (2015) twitter link

@HurchinHome tweeted
Author's Preface' which found shoon prettier than shoes. #ScotsPo(2018)
“Shoon Prettier far than Shoes” A C(2019)