A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'shunners'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shunnersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
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 4.4 1 1
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) 204.9 4 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of shunners in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Shunners https://t.co/bRR8uDkJa1(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
hunkered doon an stirred tha shunners on page 18
Tha boneys' shunners smouldered on on page 30
Stoor tae stoor! Shunners tae shunners! on page 40

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General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Mind an no put your het shunners in the plestic bin: I did it (2014) twitter link
Reekin shunners fae the Relief o Derry boney (2015) twitter link

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
my mother would have called “shunners” :)(2019)