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The word 'faun'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
faunOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14454
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 140.6 43 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
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 faun in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
n afore he'd been wi her, she faun she wis i the faimly wye bie on page 7
els tae hae a tryst wi him an faun oot fae them the exac time af on page 8
d awa tae Steenie's hoose, an faun Steenie's gweed-mither in a d on page 16
they held at a gweed lick an faun Mary an Joseph, wi e bairnie on page 82
im oot. Efter three days they faun him i the Temple, sittin wi e on page 83
Also on pages 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 104, 106, 107, 109, 112, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121
32 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Wondered faun the subtitles wiz guan tae ap(2014)
e non Doric spikers the nicht faun watching BBC1 The Mart with o(2016)
Faun's the bairns back tae school (2016)
Faun's International Mannie's Day (2016)
Faun aat AECC I like tae dance, cl(2016)
and 5 other occurrences.

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
En keep faun on oor tour,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
Next thing ye kin ye've faun oot wi' that ain, the next ai on page 8

1 matches

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