A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'foons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
foonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.484
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of foons in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
t it didna fa doon, cause its foons were on e rock. An e chiel at on page 15
t a hoose, dug deep an laid e foons on e rock. Fan e spate cam, e on page 90
it? Ither gait, gin ye lay e foons an syne canna feenish it, aab on page 106

5 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Berryhill, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
An sair upon the dubbie foons
1 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
ne @air_ingy At wid pi in the Foons at Westhill(2020)

General Ulster

North South Ministerial Council Twa Thoosan an Six - Twalmond Fynnin, (Ullans Speakers Association 2007) Ulster, government
wull big oan tha foons o tha PEACE II Darg thenoo. T on page 3

1 matches

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