A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

foon Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences73 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of foon in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Nae shaidie wis there tae be foon on page 18

1 matches

Macdonald, Ileene Fit’s it aa aboot?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ssential services cut. We hae foon wur voices again. A pynt that
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
hine. That's how the German's foon themsels hijacked in the 30s. (2022) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ring jibbled up frae the derk foon o the yird, sweet an clear an
far her breistbeen jyned the foon o her lang fite neck, as the
an smush at their reid, reid foon.
roon eggies tae nestle in the foon o her basket, Doctor Henderso
4 matches

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