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The word 'cun'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cunOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.1205
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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
WCE - West Central 73.6 16 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 cun in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
cun-nan on page 28

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
sounds o the Hare Krishna, ah cun tell ye. At twelve years auld
nge. An’ then ah saw… hoo cun ah tell ye, even noo. He wis
2 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
€™ who ah am an’ naethin’ cun chainge that – no even 55 p
e best damned democracy money cun buy, eh? An’ it juist got w
e they naw get? See hoo words cun be yased tae prove whitiver y
e a’ daein’ the best they cun doon there, bit whit a waste
e a nichtmare lang afore they cun cam hame. When will we see th
9 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ss Scot. An ah’m no sure ah cun pit ma finger oan whit joins
Aye, we a’ work the gither. Cun ye believe it? It’s a websi
n’ address the issue. If we cun work oot whit the issue is. C
owk here (which is fine, they cun be here same as the Poles or
nae vote fer independence. An cun only hope the other nations h
5 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
cun- on page 29

1 matches

General Central

Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
ich will hae tae dae until ah cun git ma napper in gear tae mak
1 matches

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