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The word 'understan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
understanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3116
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
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 understan in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Mitchell, Kiera Fit why nae?, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
I dina understan fit why nae?
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Winter nae wild this I canna understan,
ed tae go. Jonsar Eck coodnae understan the damn thing. He
understan her directions. It wis nae ee
3 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
understan fit wye the timmer hoose wis
lang. Fit Jonsar Eck couldnae understan wis, fowk did grudge the
anither planet." Noo div you understan fit wye it his tae be second
3 matches

(South) East Central

Peffers, Bob The Pittin Doon o Guid Scots, (peffers50.freeserve 2002) Central - Fife, prose
im wha wis dolts fir we kid a understan thaim bit they couldna unerst
1 matches

West Central

@annieones tweeted
these laid will help yae tae understan yer ain laid mich better. Yae (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
drink, maist o’ us couldnae understan’ a word he said. We soon fu
1 matches

General Central

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
And stick tae things ye understan. on page 14

1 matches

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