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The word 'understood'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
understoodOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52421
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 3
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of understood in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
sna unexpected - let that be understood. on page 33

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Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
y opened the artic" wae never understood whit shae meant but hid amuse

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
ficers o e court,' an A never understood what id meant till noo." on page 109

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ah’ve nivver understood wye fowk say “relaxing ower (2019)

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
creaturs kent it. Maybe they understood somethin aboot him us humans on page 118

1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
nd upper was the only thing I understood the rest was mumbo jumbo.
1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@molach95 @d_anderson878 I understood mair or less ilky work o that(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"The judge understood that it wis a healthy debate. on page 131

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
nin is simple: naethin cin be understood unless ye ken its cost. Ye se on page 35

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
id enough for him an tho fowk understood he'd been dealt a bit o a roc on page 63

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
t Santa at Christmas (A nivir understood the rules cause A ay’ gave
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ought of her. But our contact understood the situation, and the confus
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Ah lean oan the desk ‘’Understood’’ ah confess. ‘’But w
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
harder than she could o ever understood, especially oan Deid Dan day.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
An’ had fully understood
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General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
nny language. Maybe she'd huv understood why ah laughed at the wee sch on page 7

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Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
an nivir really understood on page 40

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@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
poem. Think only you would've understood the first recital ???? (2022) twitter link

@rattlecans tweeted
12. He had baws on him and I understood, I'd need tae grow some if I (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
cers o th court,' an Ah ne'er understood whit eet meant till noo." on page 112

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@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@rangersfc1984 Understood,Jimmy... ahm huv been there a(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
d, Josie. Yin ae the few that understood, that asked when ah wis - we on page 80

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Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
hale shemozzle wus that folk understood difference in them days, peop on page 45

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General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
use "ken" much although it is understood fine. We also say "yin" inste(2020)