A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'scunneration'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
scunnerationOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of scunneration in Corpus

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West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
ised community. Abuin aw, the scunneration wi whit presents as oor democ
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
She wis tremmlin wi anger and scunneration. As yin o the phones stairtit on page 67
s an aw-time tap-drawer total scunneration." on page 149

2 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
ie claith an brings a froon o scunneration tae the goddess’s pearl-whi
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
t noons (‘scunner’ and ‘scunneration’) and adverb (‘scunnersom
1 matches

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@SeawrightDaniel A scunneration :)(2020)