A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'canni'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
canniOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.272
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
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 canni in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
privileged and selfish - dey canni fathom goin weoot somethin (o (2020) twitter link
stains aboot da collar dat I canni shift. So I’m lopped aff da (2019) twitter link
@johnneh Aww I canni see da video (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
A’ canni’ get tae match,
s reverently kent as Maggie-A-Canni-Believe-She’s-Jackie’s-Si
2 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
in’ ready. “Sorry guys we canni’ go swimmin’ today, cause
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
f in the 5th and 6th week. Ye canni’ kid 26 miles an’ 385 blu
1 matches

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