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Use in varieties of Scots

wasna Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words25.8 22.9 56 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences8043 35 1 1 0 0
Number of authors13 10 1 1 1

Occurrences of wasna in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, Sine Lallans 59 - Newsins fae SLRC, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
SLRC wabsite, so onybody that wasna there can fin oot fit's bein on page 87

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
He wasna a thief, no really. Joey had on page 39

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Harrison, Jean Lallans 59 - BARRY SCHUIL 1928 - 1934, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
er cloth on the table when it wasna even supper time yet. Bein a on page 120

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Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
It wasna fair. on page 55

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Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
it wasna juist thon bit splash on page 135

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
er frae the oreiginal. Bit it wasna juist a practick o owersetter
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
intae the Rational Warld. It wasna athoot motivation. If babbies
ice, providit a flat. But she wasna stoppin there. She wad turn r
on wi the techneecian. And it wasna for wint o tryin.
ialise wi ordinar Indians. It wasna that she wasna eddicatit - B
that she wasna eddicatit - Bapu had gien he
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Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ral graith and operation. She wasna ower impressed, we’ll say,
Sae it wasna a stoondin ferly tae see ‘t
a thing. Thir Unionist voters wasna the anes we coud ever peuther
3 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
independent country. While I wasna able tae convince her o indep
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@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
@DrMDempster Wasna my play but I can see that no(2018) search twitter

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ryter pooer o perswaasion. It wasna as coorse as it soons, for th on page 55

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
a chinwag noo an than, gin he wasna tae loss his wuts aathegither on page 76
'Aye, mebbe so; but it wasna taen o you! Es is mebbe yir f on page 78
ager o the bunk says it mebbe wasna your siller.' on page 79

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
t for naething. Of coorse, it wasna the same fan A retirt, tho we on page 30

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
pable o leadin; an faan there wasna sic a veesitor, they cud lipp on page 25
r aa that th'eeswal precentor wasna there, there was a strang ten on page 26
Fergie kent, at laist, there wasna a chiel i the kirk cud tak th on page 27

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
'An, ye ken, it wasna aat easy tae howk oot.' A hae on page 89

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
we gaed tae the café; an it wasna lang afore Fergie set tee wi
eeshun. It’s nae that there wasna fock wullin tae help. There w
ith scrievers o a kyn, sae it wasna lang ere we war trockin email
ed been aa nicht, for her bed wasna sleepit in. Weel, the neipers
ho A did enjoy her company, A wasna ower happy aboot deein’t re
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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
rner o Privet Gate, but there wasna a map in sight. Whit could he
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Shetland

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trow dis eftirnoon but Ertie wasna in(just some claes drying on

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