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The word 'couldni'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
couldniOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.792
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
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 43.4 7 1
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 couldni in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@GerryinAberdeen I gied up. Couldni open i gate to get doon i sta(2019)
@ronald_davidson Hid till. Couldni be ersed though.(2020)

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
at Loch Lomond because he “Couldni’ be bothered daein’ it an
n’ got stuck in his boat, A couldni’ have got tae him afore he
hers tae sit an’ looked bit couldni’ see him. A led the rest ta
3 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
'Cause we couldni' paint nae mair!
Alsa we couldni’ lang remain,
2 matches

McKillop, Roger The Builders, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
e be outdone, Adie said, “A couldni’ mind whit ye sid, Sur. Sae
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ok o’ betrayed pathos, that couldni’ be beaten by a whipped Spa
1 matches

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