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The word 'unst'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
unstOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 63.9 11 8
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)
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 unst in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
Dis thoo ken the story o the Unst bairn, snatched by a Eagle th(2020)

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
da wirds a Basil Anderson da Unst poet cam ta mind. on page 1

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
e: da tree plaess naems Yell, Unst an Fetlar is tocht tae be pre on page 15
Lerwick, Shetland, Sandiloch, Unst. on page 47

2 matches

Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
... da Norwick beach in Unst! ‘We love dis beach, don’
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
raight awa. She wis birlin an Unst Kunal trow til he liftit aff
1 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
days oot ta Spiggie beach an Unst an da Scatness Broch but deci
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
d endemic botanical treasure #Unst #Shetland https://t.co/s2zq7k(2017)
eein my first ever at Skaw in Unst.(2018)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
tlandi am no seen dat mony in Unst, joost wan fella oot wi his t(2020)
@Noodlepotamus Du’s an Unst lass dan!(2020)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
and Shetland. My faithers fae Unst (Baltasound too) and mithers (2020) twitter link

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