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Use in varieties of Scots

wiy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 12.3 0 9.9 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences2724 0 1 0 0 2
Number of authors12 10 1 1

Occurrences of wiy in Corpus

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Central

Lang, Charles nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
t I'll get most ae it oot the wiy the mora, efter ma soup, on page 88

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
But the wiy ye held me isnae how love sho on page 6
But the wiy they'd aw fun me, deid efter on page 12
It's the wiy A look while daein it - on page 35
Ye dinnae spik the wiy we dae, ye'll ne'er be wan ae on page 95

4 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Makin tae mak ma wiy hame on page 99

1 matches

Crawford, Ross Eemis Stane 1 - Ane Dialog betwix King James VI, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, script
gies me pleasour tae spak the wiy I wish, the wiy I wis upbroch on page 11

2 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
boot forty folk snaked aa the wiy doon the road aariddy, and it
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
it wis gaun on, the world the wiy it is and Ukraine no far awae
l hae nae data again). On the wiy, A grab a banana and a coffee
2 matches

Cunningham, Liam Tam, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Bellshill, prose
n an abusive relationship the wiy thit a wiz hinkin.
Oan thi wiy hame a took a short cut n a s
but wi made it n a wiz oan ma wiy hame.
3 matches

Pennie, Len The Wheesht, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
Ye dinnae spik the wiy we dae, ye’ll ne’er be wa
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
n findin thir way tae mae wan wiy urr anotha.
runks urr tryin tae make thir wiy hame. Invadin ma personal spa
2 matches

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
No wiy wis he gaun in there
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
ch intae the air. It’s gaun wiy aff tairget — thur’s nae
1 matches

@fairpechtoot tweeted
en assured thit their natural wiy o speakin is valid.(2016) search twitter

@johnstone_shane tweeted
This wiy ae scrievin his becam gey unp (2018) twitter link
wee piece ae mine tanned its wiy right in amangst this. Qualit (2019) twitter link
the subject. Whit's the best wiy ae get in touch? (2020) twitter link
" is back oan thi scene by ri wiy. Rapid. (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the throttle lever the wrong wiy and instead o slowan doon, th on page 128

1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Ah larnt tae bae happy on my wiy through life, on page 3
dae wae go on in the same oul wiy? on page 37

2 matches

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