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The word 'suiner'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
suinerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42818
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 19.5 8 5
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 8
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 suiner in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
dman. Nou gang straucht, that suiner he micht be quat o puirtith. on page 47
an he'd win til Heivin aw the suiner. This wey, yeir Jockie wul ha on page 48

2 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
hae tae mak yer peace wi her suiner or later, as she cannae bide on page 1

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
et. She wis bound tae pass by suiner or later an cuid report til t on page 99

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
appens next. The words is nae suiner oot his mooth whan the ither
1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
ren,” sayed Frizzel, “the suiner shae
hocht at daith wes lik ti cum suiner nor he hed imaigined. Hiz har
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
epit on giein Scots a deefie, suiner or later it micht juist gaun
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
'Ah'd suiner draw it fae this big river th on page 106

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
t least naitural - that we'd suiner set wi the weel-tae-dae o bon
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
he flees aff, but that he wad suiner hiv haen nae tail and nae fle
bellion wis wun at a guid bit suiner and mair easy than onybody ha
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
She wad hae tae spick til him suiner or later. She excused hersel
eill tae lat thaim sattle it, suiner raither nor later.
2 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
g eneuch, fund or made tools, suiner or later they cuid build some
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
lowse his gowden chyne, ye'd suiner yet be deid on page 52

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Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ertit in wi't bedien, but nae suiner haed he stertit nor he wis ha on page 19
nae saicret o the fact at the suiner he wis out o the hous, the be on page 27
aa that athout greitin.' Nae suiner haed she thocht it than a wee on page 32

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Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
the midges aff, but that he'd suiner hae had nae tail and nae midg on page 6

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
The Charltons are here!" Nae suiner said, on page 35

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Gin it is, A wud suiner turn tae the soor Dorothy Par on page 91

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
din watters o staunardisation suiner nor Inglis. Taen thegither, L
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Indytwa?, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e anither UK general election suiner nor we thocht as weill, depen
a gamble on Labour i 2020 (or suiner) peyin aff? Or the nixt time?
2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
oorse wad be hyne lairnin (?) suiner nor face tae face lairnin but(2020)
he distributoiun cudna stairt suiner nor iday!(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
e pleisir in leevin an Ah’d suiner be deid.
1 matches

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