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The word 'onywan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
onywanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.8198
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 4
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 onywan in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
I hinna murthered onywan - yit. Efter aa, on page 23

1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
™s complaints. Ah dinnae want onywan else tae see whur ah’m gaun
1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
wis jist bizarre behaviour in onywan’s book. Bit the scariest hi
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an ae embuggerance tae onywan on page 7
...or by onywan else ither than Boab on page 9
or onywan else on page 16
askin if onywan haes seen her man on page 39
an onywan wha seeks tae fend him on page 45

5 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
in' stramash is enuf tae send onywan pure doolally. Sure on on page

1 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Tae onywan else except fur himsel, on page 6

1 matches

Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
ammy, tae gie a kickin’ tae onywan wha’s no in their ‘friend
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
und fer stupit. Ah didnae ken onywan wha wis Irish, so Ah niver qu(2020)
s a bairn in the 1970s, afore onywan in the West hud heard o Bantu(2020)
eek jist fer swearin - no at onywan, jist swearin. Twitter cin be(2020)
get worse every time, hou con onywan believe that they'll chynge? (2020)
Dis onywan else think Jack bears a strik(2020)
and 3 other occurrences.

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