A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wirdie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 1.5 21.1 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences173 14 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 2 3

Occurrences of wirdie in Corpus

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Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
wes weill, bot it wesna thon wirdie avaw. It wes twa polismen an
yeir onduchtie k’nicht mair wirdie nor Crowner
2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
™s privilege o inflictin some wirdie details on ye.
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Quine wis the auld Scots wirdie fur Queen, Nava telt them aa.
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
The wirdie o the day at http://t.co/C4HA(2014) search twitter
Tattieboodie” – great Doric wirdie fit means Scarecrow.(2014) search twitter
The day’s wirdie o the day is “spunks” which(2014) search twitter
the contributor fur the Doric wirdie Bass whilk means rug.(2014) search twitter
Wad luv tae spread wirdie aboot oor Doric dialect cwid (2014) search twitter
and 7 other occurrences.

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
@byrnesong Gowdspink is the wirdie A wid use, aye. The loon/Quin (2020) twitter link

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