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Use in varieties of Scots

tun Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1.5 1.5 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences63 1 0 2 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of tun in Corpus

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Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
the Gaelic for foreigner, and Tun is the Anglian for enclosure on page 23

1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
Dat dem start fi try tun language
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nfortunately will miss out in tun (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
...looks like yer luck's jist Tun oot, eh?" on page 41

1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
It comes fae "tun" meaning Andrew's croft/field
k says it originates fae "Krátun" meaning a "sheep enclosure,

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