A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scunn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scunnOccurrences 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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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) 107.1 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of scunn in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 76 - Oan the Daith o John Law, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
, guid fier, I douna jouk sic scunn’rin grief,
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Hugh's. Yin day she wus that scunnért she wus hairdlie ower tha on page 15
aitin hauf a yeir noo, an A'm scunnért thair's nae on page 25
ower lang it wus hauf ten A'm scunnért noo. Mair hape o gettin b on page 31

3 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Aye wads throu sheuchs o scunnért on page 30
A scunnért luk, tae on day three on page 72

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
weel thocht o bi men wud be a scunnèr tae God. on page 98
iein me that much bother. A'm scunnèrt wi hir aye rinnin tae me! on page 100

2 matches

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