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The word 'wirkit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wirkitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.54015
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 49 15 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 43.9 7 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
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 wirkit in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
Bit yit dey laaght an wirkit awa, fan on page 13

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Grottie-Buckie and Tirli-Wirli, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997352) Shetland, weans
He wirkit da colours inta da oo an med on page 19

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
dat even if his twa airms wirkit fornenst on page 30

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Dey aedge da art dat's wirkit bi da sea: on page 34

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
Sure enyoch, hit wirkit. A boy cam tae da back door a
'Hit's wirkit weel enyoch' said Ingrid an N
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ah'v wirkit full time since Ah wis fowert on page 9
is hans. "Dinna git yersel aa wirkit up." on page 24
Betty wirkit er wye doon the list, er lips on page 82

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
cles ripplin and flexin as he wirkit up an doon the lenth o her ne on page 13
ddit Alec. "Ken yon wifie aat wirkit ahin the bar it the Legion... on page 69
t, Roy - wi baith div. Ye've wirkit solid since ivver Ah kent ye on page 86
r a man fa'd brocht him up an wirkit bi his side - a slave te ilk on page 95

4 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
fadder, 'For aa iss eers A've wirkit till ye, A've deen naethin it on page 107

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
aw a gasket, gettin yersel aa wirkit up like at." on page 7

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
wis, fur naebody kent foo it wirkit bit him, fa'd bin schuled at
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
de her hame till twal. Her Ma wirkit at her Da's surgery as a nurs
al Merchant Bank companies an wirkit frae hame in a room brawly ri
es an three drunks that fyles wirkit wi Auld Joe wis takkin bets o
ar Jude an Jed Anderson baith wirkit in the culture-carrier unit t
Flores an Java. The Mollucans wirkit lang-term tae lowden the Yird
5 matches

General Northern

Innes, Brian P. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Thochts o a Teacher, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
e tae dee wi onythin? Weel, I wirkit as a science teacher at Inver on page 49

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
s she tyeuk out her jotter an wirkit out the sum for him: on page 81

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
se at aa. The Pechts an Scots wirkit thegither an, ower hunners o
1 matches

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
that in Dundee ae chiel, wha wirkit as a gunsmith, that tyned twa
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
e nivver cried it that fan ye wirkit doon Sooth! Or nae twice. ?? (2020)
ity in Embra an Glesga faan A wirkit there - they didnae cry them(2020)

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
gues that he had steyed wi an wirkit wi for years.
He wis a blate man, bit that wirkit in her favour. She wad bring
“Na. It wis the thing that wirkit. It wis quhan we had tae cope
He wirkit till there wis nae mair licht
Yince he had wirkit oot whit the lad wis ettlin t
7 matches

General Central

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
deprivation. Scots Hoose has wirkit wi a reenge o professional ai
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
street wi the peelins. An it wirkit baith weys. They gied us empt
1 matches

Smirnov, Kuzma , (Facebook 2015) Central, prose
rasianka an Surzhik). An that wirkit! The nou, baith B. an U. are
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
@DrMDempster Whit hiv ye wirkit on?(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Eemis Stane 1 - Fields o Stanes, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
m-toun whaur his fowk bade an wirkit at, that wis its ain place in on page 21

2 matches

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