A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'doan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
doanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.893
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 175.8 5 1
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 18.8 3 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 doan in Corpus

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Orkney

Peace, Courtney The 'Guid' Life, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Yins the mornan's wark doan but no fur the rest of the da
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
, "Why, Mary Ann, what are ee doan oot here? Run hom iss meenad, on page 31
"Oh, please mind what ye're doan!" cowned Alice, Jumpan up an on page 57
e ken. So ee see, Miss, we're doan wur best, afore she comes, ti on page 75
he went on, "What hev ee been doan here?" on page 78
ily on slates. "What are they doan?" Alice whispered till e Gryp on page 105

5 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
r enough, so we both got shut doan tonight.
ting oot to ma face and neck, doan to ma toes, even out in ma fi
™m so incredibly close but ah doan think that ah kin come wi’o
3 matches

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