Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'twunty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

twunty	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.9	13	9
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)	94.2	3	1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)	116.3	2	1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)	142.8	4	3
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	113.7	4	4
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of twunty 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.

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
-agh dear! A'll niver git tae twunty at this rate! Hooiniver, the on page 19
nicht! Yae see the earth taks twunty-fower hours tae turn roon on on page 59
nin, so shae stairtet agane: "Twunty-fower hours, A think; or is i on page 60

3 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Twunty poun apiece an baith weel war on page 16

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
As tha coorse oul twunty an saxteen! on page 40
As tha coorse oul twunty an saxteen! on page 41

2 matches

Lyttle, A. G. Yarns 3 - Lastin Memorial, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Bangor, prose
doon at us fer fu’ three an twunty yeir.
1 matches

Gibson, Darren Oul money, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
. Nixt cum tha pun note worth twunty shillin’s, folliet by tha t
1 matches

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Fower an twunty blakbirds baked in a pie on page 30

1 matches

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
That wus twunty three sizes tae big. on page 44

1 matches

Robinson, Philip Tae a Virus, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, poetry
An twunty stane o rice.
1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
a keek at the coorse oul year twunty an saxteen in daicent #Ulster (2016) twitter link