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The word 'uni'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
uniOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.25234
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23 9 6
WCE - West Central 36.8 8 4
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 32.6 6 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 21.4 16 12
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 69.5 5 4
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 uni in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
wee sister graduated fae the Uni it Aiberdeen an got her first on page 78

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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Social Subjects tutor at the Uni, teacher training. IÂ’m tryin (2020) twitter link
Aye! Went doon tae Newcastle Uni and hae bed near Banff fer 15 (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ner who did the FECollege tae Uni in my late 20s and early 30s (2021) twitter link
gelaHaggerty When I taught at Uni, I had tae facilitate the fol (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
rVyce It wisna till I wint te uni that I realised fit I spoke w(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
d o the city o Miranda an the Uni-vairsity o Tras-os-Montes. Th
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
s aince they did - at Glesca Uni we dae discreeminate atween S
1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
he didnae gae tae college or uni — that wis oot the
aim, maist like when I wis at uni in the early 1 9705, but it a
2 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
e's a coorse here at Aberdeen Uni for stairters.
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ke diploma frae the Ulanbator Uni. “This certifies ye as supe
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
oth3 @atouchofsense My son at uni canÂ’t even visit us. I canÂ’(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the meadows tae brek up these uni chaps! (2021) twitter link
hauf time in the strollers v uni game lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
said. 'Ah could huv gaed tae uni, easy-peasy. But there wis na on page 193

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Lesley Ann wantet tae go tae uni tae become a child psychologi on page 126
ery test then saunter aff tae uni whilst ah'm stuck doon the Jo on page 169

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Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
sor of Scottish Lit in Glesca Uni, or Alan Riach, the current c
y Derrick McClure o Aiberdeen Uni, maist o them never implement
2 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
is ma, wha hoped gaein’ tae uni wid git hum a better class oâ
he git his wan way ticket tae Uni. But Andy fooled her an’ go
2 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
publication appeared: Glesca Uni’s three volume Scottish Lit
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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
™re like the fuckin Cambridge uni fur butchers. It’s a trek f
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
l Davies is a lawyer, Glasgow Uni graduate. He's a flashy basta on page 37

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Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
n as soon as ye move away tae uni. on page 1

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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
gither an goat two offers fur Uni, optin tae go tae Caley tae d
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
plication tae study nursin at uni last night. Ideally, ah'll bl on page 34
But Dad never went tae uni, and he still managed tae wor on page 90

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
azement tae me. When I wes at Uni, ane o ma favourite quairs we on page 6

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Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
phauld o the skeely harns o a uni IT depairtment, is like tae w
1 matches

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
uch when ah went tae Aberdeen Uni fir a spell. Thinkin bout ma
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
Edinburgh University, ma ain uni. Still weird tae be ane o the(2017)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
I Scots. Sustainable Housing, UNI, Rewable Energy, Hustings, re(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
ble tae study it at Edinburgh uni lang syn(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
college, went on tae Glasgow Uni, then Strathclyde Uni and the(2020)
erty Jings, when I wis at the Uni I didnae hae feckin time tae (2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
Argentina shirt to my Glasgow Uni lectures every day. Never rec (2022) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
es13 @GothicaAD Awww Stirling Uni is 10-15 mins fae ma door x (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
llow, wha's studyin at Dundee uni, ken whit ye think: https://t (2019) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
e highers and went tae Glesca Uni. Moved oan tae Strathclyde Un(2020)

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
ine. She’d feenished wi the uni, an wis here tae tak tent o m
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tavern than the Uni. Thir wirds ye scrievit on page 23

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Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
hat his dochter's awa tae the Uni. on page 129

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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
ce fur me while in the actual uni A’m registert et in Glesga
mare trevlin than ye will et uni ony day, A sagely advise. The
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@StuartPoet tweeted
 Public Health at Edinburgh Uni @devisridhar picking up a wee(2020)

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