A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wagtail Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0 0 0 23.2 0 4.4
Number of occurrences50 0 0 4 0 1
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of wagtail in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
a wagtail micht a tippit in ta sit wi h
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
articular bird call. My first wagtail o da year flew doon ontae da (2014) search twitter
My first waggy wagtail o da year :-D https://t.co/j2(2016) search twitter

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
anyone else noticed the pied wagtail uprising going on in the stre(2019) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
ails are cawed Wullie! Wullie Wagtail! (2021) twitter link