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The word 'tunin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tuninOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8169
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 tunin in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Soondscapes, (Shetland For Wirds 2015) Shetland, poetry
wi da bruckit feed-hoop tunin in:
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
airently, they'rg incapable o tunin inte ither folk's feelins an on page 82

1 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
An fan he played his tunin phrase, on page 28

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Minnie's faither drew oot the tunin fork frae its boxie, and gaed
could sing till he struck the tunin fork an led them, his voice a
2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
oolRadioUK Looking forward ti tunin in!(2020)
A'll be tunin' in. Canna beat i' local wire(2020)
Fitba the nicht. I'll be tunin in weerin ma awa sark and lis(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@simonhibs1875 used to love tunin intae motd m8 - noo its the (2021) twitter link

West Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
ae see?" Ah'm in the middle o tunin in her telly, an this takes m on page 15
ther's chair an Ah cairry oan tunin the telly, ma hairt beat slow on page 16

3 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
in painful half breaths while tunin the bouzouki. Iona's mic feed on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
The tone wis reuch, the tunin wauf on page 58
Wha dichts the tunin o the spheres, on page 60

2 matches

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