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The word 'gonny'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gonnyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3177
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 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 16 12 3
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 gonny in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
olk they aa were, they werena gonny let ithers trample aa owre th on page 75

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
mb, Av got the sex pest, whos gonny get us stopped fae the police
ot laying intae each er, wits gonny get us chucked oot afore weâ€
2 matches

West Central

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
Scottish government that’s gonny be bold, because A need somet
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“Ok yin mair try? Ok, A’m gonny place a hand near your back t
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
n second year, but naebdy wis gonny say anythin cos it wis better
Are you gonny make Christmas decorations, h
n a lot of pain, and he wisny gonny get better. At least this way
ae him if ah’d known he wis gonny die so soon. Ah wis feart as
Ah’m gonny ask ma mammy.
5 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
magazines that tell her wits gonny happen wae major storylines i (2018) twitter link
OW suhin absolutely mental is gonny happen over er politically in (2018) twitter link

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
@Jab64000 Ah no doll. Ach, am gonny hae anither gless o wine and (2020)
thot a hid run oot and it wiz gonny be a dry quiz but the wine fa(2020)
Whit we waitin fur? ItÂ’s no gonny start itsel(2020)
and died. Crismiss wis nivvir gonny be the same fur me bit surely(2020)
Angus is right. Gonny no dae that. ItÂ’s clarty, vi(2020)

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