Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'murnin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

murnin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.2	14	8
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.4	1	1
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	7.9	6	3
SEA - South East (Borders)	37.4	3	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 murnin in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
is better. There wis nae mair murnin fur the parks o Steenhillock.
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
ans shaved aff thair ee-broos murnin thair bawdrons on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
e mukkil fortrace, ilkane wes murnin the los o thair
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
you that wis murnin aboot bein a lawyer wull nou on page 104

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
Keing o the Norlin Pechts wes murnin the enn o ane auld sang. Efti on page 47

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
The wee prince gantit. He wis murnin his tint sundoun. An syne he on page 40

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Nae murnin feet there gang on page 80

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
ye've heard, months-lang, murnin an greitin. on page 17
alwayis murnin. Wha can thole it? on page 31
Pit by this murnin, on page 32
Mary Livingstone: An murnin aa her lot. on page 35

4 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
35. A Wumman in Murnin : do.
A WUMMAN IN MURNIN
Gin this is murnin , ower mukkil’s here
3 matches