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The word 'deuan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deuanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5164
ORK - Orkney 159 16 4
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 deuan in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
she went on. "Charlie wis oot deuan something wi the sheep, I thi on page 14
oo stairt tae move wi' Jeemie deuan whut he could tae help. on page 16

3 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
And worry hoo you're deuan, whether yields are up or doo on page 10
nd up gettan sent tae bed and deuan withoot his tea. on page 15
e's a certain satisfaction in deuan things fae scratch. on page 44

3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
boot whit her pals in Mars is deuan. on page 11
t whit deus sheu think sheu's deuan? Whan wad sheu come haem? on page 71
space o space, an hoo sheu's deuan that grand a wark oot here. ( on page 72
quiet. Kens thoo whit thoo're deuan?" "No yet. I'll learn." "Hid' on page 148

5 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
learnan fae the fock aareidy deuan grand wark i the Orkney langu
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
’ll ryt aboot differ weis o deuan Orcadian irthografee, an the
The fifd is whit A’m deuan noo, whit is foond teu in Sim
2 matches

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
tae thee fer the wark thoo're deuan. A'm hairtsair ower the bulde(2020)

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