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The word 'owns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ownsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21410
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
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 owns in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Sclater, Kathryn Gallows Ha - Five Signs, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Sheu owns wan familiar, a cat. on page 15

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
apevine at youre no heard wha owns da firm noo - ah'm sure you' on page 41

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
mean in this day and age who owns a mace? Lit alone actually us on page 20

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Who Owns Scotland - Andy Wightman
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
™â€™ ah scoff, laughin. ‘’Owns a sauna joint in Moredun, doe
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
t's the dochter o the man wha owns Wormwidd Motors in the clacha on page 77
dochter o the mannie wha owns Wormwidd Motors?" on page 151

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
hyphen name. Everythin Linsey owns has got tae be a designer lab on page 169

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
some fowk reckon Diageo, that owns sae monie o Scotland's whisky on page 134

1 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
mmunity-run Assynt Foundation owns the popular walkin areas o Gl
the Hoose o Lords mannie that owns the laund. It lees tuim but f
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e on behalf of my mother. She owns the Labrador. The one which i
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
She swaggers aboot as if she owns the place. on page 5

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e themsels tae whoever it is, owns the arse their tongue’s hin
1 matches

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