A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cana'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
canaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.9295
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern 106.4 24 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 cana in Corpus

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Shetland

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
You cana dyit a takawa whar I bide at
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Mitchell, Kiera Fit why nae?, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
I cana stop thinkin aboot it
1 matches

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
@muffin260785 aye i thnk so. Cana wait like. Haha. Its arite mi(2013)
@CallumC19 platform shutdoon. Cana be helped. I just did 8 extra(2013)
t ashley young in the face. I cana watch him attempt to play fit(2014)
@RossAndrew7 cana even be arsed arguing. Just w(2013)
@giggsy26 fuck aye min. Cana be worse than the last cunts (2013)
and 19 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
njoy there 2 week brek in the cana (2020) twitter link
endary coo shed on match days cana b beet brother - u n the fam (2020) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
, the storie o the 'Waddin at Cana in Galilee', frae the Johanni on page 135

1 matches

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