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The word 'unnerstuid'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unnerstuidOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.43012
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 12.8 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 81.6 13 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 unnerstuid 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
! A daursay ma acks wul no be unnerstuid ava. Sae, frauchtit wi ma gui on page 48

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
indiginous language spoken an unnerstuid bi the feck o the Scots natio
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Fit a ferlie! The machine unnerstuid an repeatit it in the same En
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Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
In a blinndin insicht, Tammas unnerstuid. This wes the Blak
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tae Dutch an Danish an can be unnerstuid tae an extent bi Dutch an Dan
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
n aw but the scatter plot. He unnerstuid that statistics their lanes d
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Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
inch o the field, and in fact unnerstuid the haundlin o mawin and raki
resolutions. The ither bease unnerstuid hou tae vote, but could niver
2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
She wis muved. She thocht she unnerstuid: he wis wussin her better luc
it, tryin tae leuk as gin she unnerstuid, tryin no tae smirtle.
he tramp leukit as gin he had unnerstuid some o this, an didna believe
l raither nor admit that they unnerstuid onythin ither. Uighurs, he ga
asna shair foo muckle the lad unnerstuid o whit he wis sayin, bit the
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General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
t whit wis't she micht no hae unnerstuid. on page 15
ut a meinit, she kent he haed unnerstuid. That wis a gift for the bait on page 32

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ns "ma wee sowels" afore. She unnerstuid the wirds he wis sayin but st on page 8

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Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
ise it was anely then that he unnerstuid and saw aathing as it was. Sk on page 17

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Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
it wis unnerstuid at Himsel wadna bring coloure
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Gin Global English is unnerstuid as ‘the hale English langua
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
er main options, these can be unnerstuid in terms o a scale o flittin
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
him gae blindt, and Marie is unnerstuid tae hae actit as his literary
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@Chazzbat tweeted
r or no Ah cud spell an if Ah unnerstuid Inglish.(2020)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
n: You alane o ma friends hae unnerstuid ma reflective poems. A hunner
hyle ti wait for a poet ti be unnerstuid!
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Eemis Stane 1 - Fields o Stanes, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
t the beuk Sawbathlie, wis aa unnerstuid. Ti the granbairns, toun-bred on page 21

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