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The word 'aboon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
aboonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21713
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of aboon in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
He hid gret treacle wallops aboon peedie black eyes on page 90

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
e teem o wullsome that birled aboon them. Siclike, the Septiles g
1 matches

Shearer, Gillian Skitin Oan Thin Ice, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2019) Doric - Alford, prose
Bit whit wis yon skitin aboon the ice? A figure aa riggit o
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Fit muckle ettercap aboon ma heid?! https://t.co/ASjJx8(2016)

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
rinnin fae aboon their een on page 5
soarin aboon the circumference on page 7

2 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
On a meadow aboon the toon on page 12

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
curse on us, an we canna get aboon't! We were the first to sin,
1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
part fae the flappin craiturs aboon, thare was nae noise. Feelin
n trolley wi baith airms high aboon her heid. The wumman that All
2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
'Yon's the loft aboon ye, Grannie!' Geordie cawed o on page 47
he auld skraikie voice fae up aboon. 'Gie me anither dose, ma lad on page 48
e hissin soond wis dirlin fae aboon their heids. Steam wis skitin on page 98

3 matches

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
ashy duds like naebdy else's. Aboon them a', he looed a pair o go on page 56

1 matches

Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e heivens, towerin like etins aboon a faur green kintra – nocht
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Ae me yur aboon thum aw. on page 107

1 matches

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
word "above" can be "abin" / "aboon" / "abeen" ; the word "pot(2020)