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Use in varieties of Scots

doons Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 3 6 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences136 4 1 2 0 0
Number of authors13 6 4 1 2

Occurrences of doons in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
thirs been ups an doons on page 12

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
school she'd tae wear hand me doons fae her big sister an she did on page 52

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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n weirin Beatrice’s haun-me-doons
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Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
this unco year. The ups, the doons, the things that’ll byde wi
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ae can git its ain dale o pit-doons. The'r echos thare o the kinn
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@g_hibby tweeted
you Amanda... Had oor ups and doons like aw' the rest o' us.. But (2023) twitter link

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Nae ups an nae doons - the years wore awa Till a on page 15

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ince is wirds an is wutty pit-doons war legendiry. on page 34

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Wheeler, Leslie Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, weans
Life's Little Ups and Doons on page 25

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@Franwella tweeted
, jist like a oor ither ups n doons! x(2012) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
We'll catch up wi the ups and doons in Coronation Street on page 33

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Life gyings on wi its ups an doons, an dis year is nae different on page 1

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@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
MGreer Aabody has dir ups and doons Sam - most hide dir doon mom (2020) twitter link

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