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The word 'sinn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sinnOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus632099
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
LAL - General Central 13.1 10 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 56.9 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 3543 195 2

Occurrences of sinn in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Central

Foyle, Ghillie Lallans 58 - The Hildebrand Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Faither an sinn made straucht thair lintin gr on page 87

7 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ans courrie up wi Scots becis Sinn Feinn courries up wi Earse. T on page 121

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
whit micht happen? Whit micht Sinn Féin achieve i the Republic
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
'S math sinn! https://t.co/iER13IHnm4(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
the sinn awa on page 27

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Sae will toast Killyleagh's sinn, the King wi'the bal'. on page 2

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
sley @gildernewm @DGordonhack Sinn Fein an the Greeks: baith qua (2015) twitter link
Ulster Scots branch o Sinn Fein (Oorsels Alane) caain @G (2014) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
mlie line o Jesus Christ, tha sinn o Davit an o Abraham: on page 1
t: "Oot o Egypt A hae caad ma sinn." on page 2
e heiven sayin, "Thïs ïs ma Sinn, ma hairt's delicht; A'm weel on page 3
wa ither brithers, Jeames tha sinn o Zebedee an hïs brither Jho on page 4
amang ye, ïf hïs sinn axes hïm fer breid, wull gie on page 8
Also on pages 9, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 111
193 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Sinn-pooert flatches fur lectric
Sinn-pooert flatches fur haitin wa
2 matches

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