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The word 'toonsers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
toonsersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 4
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 1.3 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of toonsers in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
ie or the hale jing bang. The toonsers will yap tae ye aa day - ye' on page 37

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the same opportunities es yer toonsers div."' on page 37

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
tho, wis guid eneuch fur the toonsers fa widna ken ony better. Afor
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ppie. Een markit Rowies for i toonsers and een markit Butteries for (2019)
Merry Christmas ti aa Toonsers, Teuchters and Meelers alike.(2019)

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
Are the bairns that ye teach toonsers or teuchters? Click here tae (2018) twitter link