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The word 'actioun'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
actiounOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5154
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 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 1
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 actioun in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Lallans 59 - Leids and Lieder: Walcome ti Helvetiscots, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
nvied the temperament o men o actioun, an tendit ti set his short n on page 5

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
on!" an haird souns o frantic actioun as Broon stertit shiffllin co on page 95

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
actioun agin me wes wrangous. The cla
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Auld Scots law : the actioun o lawborrow or lawborrowis, n on page 22
fekfu it raellie wes, yit the actioun o Lawburrows haes stuid the t on page 23
earhunner, keepin the richt o actioun but, in effeck, adaptin it ti on page 24
l.ac.uk), but it wes forby an actioun raisit in court. But what wes on page 25

12 matches

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