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The word 'dusna'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dusnaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6184
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 104.6 18 4
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 dusna in Corpus

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Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
You manna tak whit dusna belang ta you. on page 16
Ill dusna come oot o da aert, an budder on page 27
Wha-ivir dusna dö or spaek ill. on page 31
He dusna git in a birse bit is aye rea on page 43
shö dusna flite aboot coorse wadder on page 49
Also on pages 71, 139, 165
13 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Canna read muckle; dusna ken his tables. on page 68

1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
am usually blastin in da car dusna hiv quite da sam effect when (2020) twitter link
s da media icon when da thing dusna even hiv a CD player https:// (2020) twitter link
A sore head dat dusna go away eftir a good sleep is (2021) twitter link

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
heathery hillock, in case du dusna hae yun wird by dee) - - but (2020)

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