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The word 'couldny'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
couldnyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7197
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 7.3 3 1
WCE - West Central 26.6 6 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 couldny in Corpus

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(South) East Central

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
after aw, ma teachers knew ah couldny get far in life cos eh ma tes
An a couldny keep anything in ma heed, ma
at ma gleamin fitbaw boots ah couldny believe it, ma knees were sha
3 matches

West Central

Dalgetty, Moira Lallans 104 - The Best Laid Schemes..., (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
uva tranquillisin effect, but couldny find anythin. Mibbe it's ma m on page 102

6 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
e Scots words (e.g. bi wirtin couldny raither nor a tradeetional Sc on page 40

2 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
words tae explain it, but ah couldny. Ah looked at ma fingers whic
Ah couldny wait tae show them tae me da,
ong ago it wis that tight she couldny get it aff.
Ah wis sure. Ah couldny bear the fact we’d never sa
4 matches

@FaetheRye tweeted
@Rab_Dickson1 @meljomur Couldny haud a caunle tae David Atten (2021) twitter link

@MartinBroon tweeted
Although A overstayed a day,A couldny get Myself vertical oan time (2019)
ndbov Aye! Danny whitshisname couldny manage anything tae save hims(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Still Ah couldny find the sound o him on page 96

1 matches

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