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The word 'cwidna'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cwidnaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.4474
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 190.6 43 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 cwidna in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
That Susy wisna sikkin him he cwidna see ava on page 15

2 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
an compere Fraser McGlynn, fa cwidna resist a dig at the Dons, see
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
l camouflage jaickets, bit ah cwidna find tham onywhere!(2020)

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ye mith say): an sae thon een cwidna haen ony pairt in the complut on page 9
bbie wes reddin ye up, sae ye cwidna. I wes watchin the louns gedd on page 10
nickety, hed thraipit at they cwidna acause there wes jist the twa on page 13
an for twa-three minties she cwidna dee ocht but bosie little Lil on page 17
t wes plain as parritch at he cwidna aider hear her nor see her. on page 18
Also on pages 19, 23, 25, 33, 39, 40, 43, 44, 47, 49, 56, 57, 58, 60, 65, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73, 77, 78, 81, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95, 98, 99, 100
43 matches

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