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The word 'coontless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
coontlessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92316
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 4
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of coontless in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Tae the coontless times he pushed his luck when on page 15

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
lik an ayre wi coontless grains o sand. on page 47

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
boot deed Granda Robertson an coontless ither folk Ah didna ken. Bit on page 66
in; wee potties o eye shadda; coontless lipsticks - shiny an matt; s on page 83

2 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
Faar coontless costly contracts ran
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
pilgrims hid trauchled up the coontless man-vrocht steps, strung wi l
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
i the flicht o swallaes coontless on page 2
n in puddock dubs mervelin at coontless reddins waffin bunts past aw on page 3

3 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
id. By tellin us aw aboot his coontless accolades and previous appear on page 52

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Ye'll hear its name on coontless lips,
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
stands the sirloin steaks and coontless luxuries he’s became accust
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
snappin coontless selfies wi the ither on page 39

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
that had "touched the hert" o coontless millions o fowk roon the glob on page 18

1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
an upmak Scots. But there are coontless ither roads we can gie Scots on page 13

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
The'r coontless references tae haun for a bod on page 33
lar like. As it haes been for coontless ithers, the centre wis the fi on page 61

2 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
in coontless grates and ranges smoored at on page 107

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
“ch” soond that kythes in coontless Gaelic wirds, fae loch and sm
, can be seen abuin aw in the coontless Gaelic place names and launsc
as weel as the spak tongue o coontless thoosans o ilka-day fowk acro
3 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
Thaur wad hae bin coontless mair wee stanes on page 46

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Coontless dry banes a hairst, deid on page 16

1 matches

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