A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'urny'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
urnyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
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 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 urny in Corpus

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West Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
's real maw. The Caramel Logs urny workin any merr. on page 102

1 matches

@annieones tweeted
aw,, um no, am telling ye a'm urny competitive, ach a wis 2nd ?? (2021) twitter link

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
a pay the speedin ???Naw yeez urny gettin yer points and goals b(2019)

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
ld apolagise then resign. BBC urny evin tryin tae hide thur bias(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
o (I think not) but they sure urny these days. (2022) twitter link