A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'dinni'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dinniOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4111
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 69 11 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 dinni in Corpus

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
If things dinni go oor way, nae matter how gu
Dinni try tae teach us, education w
2 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“Jackie,” A said, “ye dinni’ hae tae dae it aw’ yerse
er a copy o’ ma material. A dinni think A’ve ivir seen sich g
Pinot Grigio, you find you dinni needgio,
3 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
someone gets a lock-on shock, dinni’ touch them, cause the elec
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
en in a sauna afore. “Oh, A dinni’ think A’d like it,” sh
gettin’ tae Angie. “No! A dinni’ like it!” she emphatical
2 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Sae dinni'fear!
e the same number. As A say A dinni’ follow fitba an’ their
A’ dinni follow fitba’, A’m no’
3 matches

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