A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'clunk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
clunkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4116
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 clunk in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
For a’ it we cwid click an clunk
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the mantlepiece gaed clunkety clunk till it stuck the quarter oor
gin o the hoose an the steady clunk-clunk o the pendulum on the g
-clunk o the pendulum on the granfai
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
p aff the backet. There wis a clunk o frozen tinnies, a reeshle o
uy a currant bap. Wi a wechty clunk, a 5Op fell doon aside her an
in Dauvit’s street an wi a clunk, an a wallop, an a dunt, the
3 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Shak, an shudder, en clunk click as ey pass under the py
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
heir cheeks lank, sallow, and clunk-clunky—their nostrils wideâ
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
e bird up, its clockwork gaed clunk! and the birlin bitties birle on page 105

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
It hit the flair wi' sic a clunk on page 44

1 matches

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