A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wauked'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
waukedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4144
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wauked in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
She wauked awa frae the warren, leavin I
e Leddrach dam. Tarry McPhail wauked ower the neep park, tae a tie
the service, the fower o them wauked ooto the hauf licht o the Mac
ill they shone. A washer wife wauked ower frae the tenements three
4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e play?” he speired as they wauked hame.
n fore like a pendulum fin he wauked. He
Doon the street he wauked a wee bit farrer, an gaed inn
3 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
first day o schule her mither wauked her doon Jackson Street Lane, on page 14

2 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
were supplied fur him when he wauked in the open doors o the biggi
ir o them left the gairden an wauked past a Gothic edifice that lu
t Niamh, drapped her haun, an wauked taewards the gless panels mer
an that muckle biggin we jist wauked by? POLIS HEADQUARTERS!’
4 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Fou lang she wauked, puir bonny queen, fou late, on page 25

1 matches

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