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The word 'understandin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
understandinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61811
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 understandin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
ir Doric skills an raxx their understandin;
1 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
ang or facin the limits o his understandin on page 23

1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
intae Dugald's custody on the understandin he wid be o guid behaviour. A on page 118

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
an that it wid be paid on the understandin that the greenhoose become th
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
aw ah goat fae her wis little understandin and even maire naggin. on page 62
Ah pause. Understandin what he meant but hopin tae f on page 133
cos he seems tae huv a decent understandin ae English. And before ah ken on page 151
se him a holiday soon fur his understandin. The taxi then soon arrives a on page 176
walkin in and gees me a warm, understandin smile on page 178

5 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
hes o oor planet, is ayont ma understandin. Bit the remnants o Empire Lo on page 117

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
time, wis this the dawn o’ understandin’? The ba’ wis duly return
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
need tae git massel a clearer understandin ae ma prognosis. Tae say that
1 matches

General Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
set doun sound, fertile wi understandin on page 107

1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
rimer), and thochts vital tae understandin my place in the warld were ha
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
swer questions tae assess yer understandin. :-) An follae m (2019) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
tland for their attention and understandin but especially tae ma wee wif (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
aughter. Due to their lack of understandin ma anger and often oor commun(2020)
? At foremaist, a huv gae tae understandin its meanin... as ye mentioned(2020)