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The word 'irna'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
irnaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.8228
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 81.4 14 5
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 irna in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
nguistically dis means at dey irna phonemic, bit dey hae complem on page 28
essibags, onli we irna. Dis isna da sam as Standirt on page 75
aek, he willna/widna come, we irna/wirna on page 88
means at you irna fir it, or dunna fairly agree on page 98
. It ISNA "the Shetlands". De irna sicca plaess. Hit tirgs at on page 101
Also on pages 105
7 matches

Williamson, Christie Gairden, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2012) Shetland, poetry
Dese fower waas irna big eneoch
1 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
jüst da sam, but dir meanins irna. D'ir parteeclarly common atw

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
en oot dir essybags, onnly we irna. Dis isna da sam as Standirt

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
clean. “Chinese traditions irna dat different fae wir ain,”
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
keen da English name fir, dey irna many dat I keen both o at da (2021) twitter link
ght’ wird is, Shetland wirds irna ‘wrong’ an shouldna be perc (2021) twitter link

@tattooedselkie tweeted
wi Trump bein gone dey still irna aesy tae look back on when yo(2021)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
'Em frae i'Mearns irna far ahent on page 153

2 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
e Factory'). Ne'ertheless, we irna takin thir dour wittins ithou on page 3

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
aws hou uteilitie an modestie irna outlins til ither, an mair we on page 5

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
catit ti gruppin til buiks at irna onie guid.
ither til the twa leddies (we irna tellt the signeificance o thi
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
irna the same is thay yaised tae b
irna makkin machts tae ffirstaund
2 matches

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