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The word 'suns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sunsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51510
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 7.3 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 40 4 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of suns in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
set tae Stannart Days, peedie suns ithe girders lightan thir ste on page 61

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
like peedie suns on page 65

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n then its youth fitba sat n suns tae keep me going lol (2020) twitter link
- cracked it again - n the suns oot noo - c ees later (2020) twitter link
pourin intae edinburgh - the suns oot fir u every body - huv a (2020) twitter link

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Chrysanths, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
lik smaa suns burnan
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
nd the maisies shone like wee suns amang the roots o the trees. on page 1

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@BarbaraJMar A hink a suns tryin tae get oot!(2020)
@HippyRockChick Aye! Suns oot!(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The suns reluctance tae display on page 38

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
but back end suns nae dernit ruit haes slain,
1 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
love flegs. I’m away doon to Suns of Ulster. Jim Wells and all (2020)

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
Suns oot, suns oot... this isnea a drill @Sg (2021) twitter link