A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sunnin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sunninOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 sunnin in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
winter shooers, while you're sunnin yoursels ipo da beach." on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
r wis streekit oot on a slab, sunnin his fuskers.
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
usually be ga'an bit I'm awa sunnin masell somewye at wikk. Ats a(2019)
n a muckle gype. (ps. I'm awa sunnin up aa inclusive, so I'm nae f(2019)

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
tae luik doun oan grey seals sunnin thirsels. Wi yin blink o the on page 14

1 matches

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