A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wasn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 6.2 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1512 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors10 7 3

Occurrences of wasn in Corpus

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Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
'It was Steven, wasn't it?' on page 1

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
“I came back early. I wasn’t well.”
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
y have gone up anyway - that wasn’t just a few sparks. And no
1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
heard fae ye, although she “wasn’t worried”, so ye better me(2019) search twitter

@g_hibby tweeted
tae get the model done.. And wasn't on much.. Been the same her (2023) twitter link
Roddie.. Couple o' days, but wasn't full on.. Ye get intae the (2022) twitter link
fiddle aboot wi' settings, I wasn't getting my usual peeps? Fin (2023) twitter link
Well... TBH.. I wasn't looking for much today at T (2023) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
https://t.co/Awd8z3CSvG Wasn't ettlin tae lairn this but w(2020) search twitter

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
look impressed, damn right I wasn't impressed!!! (2022) twitter link

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
told you earlier, father, it wasn’t me and anyhow I don’t h
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
lv_Taylor I’ll tell ye why I wasn’t there and it’s nithin tae (2022) twitter link

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
e Aiberdeen for Heavens Sake. Wasn't he the Cooncillor for Seato (2023) twitter link

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