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The word 'coontess'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coontessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 coontess in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
be she the Lady Ilia or the Coontess Egeria; ah can caa her whit a on page 115

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"Whit wis that, Coontess?" Olaf asked. on page 150
or valid. Violet, ye arenae a coontess, and Coont Olaf, ye arenae in on page 152
id hae makkit her a miserable coontess, but cause she signed it wi h on page 153

4 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ader wad’a been Agnes Keith coontess o Moray (dee’d 1588), the w
is letter Kirkcaldy tellt the coontess o Moray that he wis feart tha
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
bi Britney Spears, Coontess o Fife, on page 84

1 matches

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