A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'cany'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
canyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.652
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 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 1
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 cany in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Lucy Lock Doon, (Greenock Telegraph 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
nt tae see ma pals but a just cany.
a cany wait tae gee ma granny a brae
2 matches

General Central

@changed_days tweeted
e 2 accounts linked? ?? But a cany see ma old troops 1/2 (2021) twitter link
ae figure oot howty dae that, cany be too gid cos am that cool a (2021) twitter link
s feel free tae DM me mate. A cany say al give ye everythin ye n (2021) twitter link