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Use in varieties of Scots

shun Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 1 1.5 0 17.4 31 4.4
Number of occurrences102 1 0 3 3 1
Number of authors9 2 1 3 2 1

Occurrences of shun in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
people, preferrin insteid tae shun ye entirely. The erosion ay c
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
hy dae some feel the need tae shun, bully an ostracise thum?(2020) search twitter

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
foostie an, fowk started tae shun the Circle fin Derek wis pie
1 matches

Shetland

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
xt an seevint wis on its wye. Shun da sixt wave passed an still
1 matches

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
da midder dees and da faider shun eftir. So I hed my doots aboo
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
en birds tell us da nichts'll shun be draain in...(2020) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Between the trees the shadows shun on page 15
The blue sky seem tae shun on page 46

2 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
rHepburn gettin the hang o it shun!!!(2012) search twitter

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Its these yae cannae shun'. on page 47

1 matches

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