A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'sannies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sanniesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 sannies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
nsteid o the sassage rolls an sannies she'd obveesly bin expeckin, on page 30

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
clamjamfrey o sannies, stappit wi aathin frae salmo
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
need yon wife tae mack up the sannies! Slainte tae one n'all & a th(2017)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
er aye made a massive batch o sannies, usually half o them wid be o
improvise wi the ketchup. The sannies were carefully wrapped in a c
2 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
s, cos absolutely cannae wear sannies wi a winter coat and even in on page 3

2 matches

General Central

@jack_capener tweeted
rMDempster An tae think A hae sannies fir ma lunch!(2020)

@MartinBroon tweeted
CallumCarson34 @welshbollocks Sannies ffs! ??(2019)