Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'nana'

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Use in varieties of Scots

nana	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.7	12	7
ORK - Orkney	19.9	2	2
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	23.7	2	1
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
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 nana in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
things that move fall foul o "Nana's peedie doll" on page 14

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Mindan Nana on page 31

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
r mam had come in past wi yer Nana ... tae drap something aff tae
y wanted, then aff ma mam and Nana went tae the shops. The accid
2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Na na na. Na na na. Na nana. Na nana. Na na na on page 111

2 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
d, micht crack open a baa baa nana #BananasMin(2015)

General Central

@ThonJacobite tweeted
fitted cabinets) and ma auld Nana wis aye bilin white claes in (2021) twitter link
h'm mindin o' the day ma auld Nana said tae ma maw "Here, whits (2021) twitter link
s the funniest thing yer auld Nana ever said? Mines tain me shop(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
d greetin’ like he did when Nana died. That wis the first nigh
1 matches