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The word 'shun'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shunOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 2
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 shun in Corpus

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Shetland

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
xt an seevint wis on its wye. Shun da sixt wave passed an still
1 matches

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
da midder dees and da faider shun eftir. So I hed my doots aboo
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
en birds tell us da nichts'll shun be draain in...(2020)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
foostie an, fowk started tae shun the Circle fin Derek wis pie
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
people, preferrin insteid tae shun ye entirely. The erosion ay c
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
hy dae some feel the need tae shun, bully an ostracise thum?(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Between the trees the shadows shun on page 15
The blue sky seem tae shun on page 46

2 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
rHepburn gettin the hang o it shun!!!(2012)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Its these yae cannae shun'. on page 47

1 matches

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