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The word 'nouns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nounsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus18.7627
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 238.3 41 1
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 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 25 19 5
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 nouns in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ematic øse o - ie is tae mak nouns (entities) oot o verbs (actio on page 39
ns gyaan on whaaras - ie maks nouns. on page 40
English - ing/-ung at formed nouns fae verbs. Ithin Sooth Englis on page 41
MAKKIN NOUNS (ENTITIES) on page 42
sses o da noun phrase, dat is nouns an adjectives (descriptive wi on page 46
Also on pages 47, 48, 49, 51, 61, 62, 69
41 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
till then they discovert nouns an verbs that gied a meanin on page 120

1 matches

Pennie, Len The Wheesht, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
Sort thon verbs oot fae the nouns, pit them where they aught ta
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Sort thon verbs oot fae the nouns, pit them where they aught ta on page 95

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
Nouns on page 2
Nouns on page 26
Irregular nouns daesna follaes the - s rule. on page 27
ives, adverbs, interjections, nouns, saws, verbs an reflexive ver on page 51

12 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
1594-1700, jist 15 are verbal nouns. The rest is participial. Thi on page 18

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
uises plural verbs wi plural nouns. This works aaricht in McLell
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
hmaclash, gallus, sma-boukit; nouns like bletherskite, brae, bree
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
e baith adverbs o time and wi nouns.
Singular Nouns
elic and Scots yaise singular nouns in certain contexts whaur plu
3 matches

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