A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wont'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wontOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.43011
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 48.6 19 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 3
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 wont in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
An feed the lot as wis his wont, they wirno gaan tae yield. on page 97

1 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
nkers now. If yir a Tory, you wont give a toss that he’s done t(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
its good for ma voice but you wont move the children of the revo (2020) twitter link
p - welcome aboard lads - u wont regret it n mind n say hello (2020) twitter link
crapping it - the will we or wont we brigade - embarassing dis (2021) twitter link
atement defo - snp followers wont get independence either - it (2021) twitter link
do - im sure the pedestrians wont mind walking on the road thro (2020) twitter link
and 12 other occurrences.

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
the street ootside as is her wont when she’s gaun aff oan wan
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
'Na.' An, as wis his wont, Skald begoud tae spak in his on page 14

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
hings a noble knight 1s aften wont tae say. on page 72

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
oneWolf1969 ?? Ye urnae and i wont listen if ye say ye are.(2020)

@jax6754 tweeted
id talk on Saturday! Gutted a wont be there??. Hopefully be able(2015)
@mrjakehumphrey Sadly a wont be joining you as assinments (2015)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ts, an ithers afore thum, wur wont tae pronoonce thum; an tae ya
shawn on ma bike, is A wis wont tae dae, doon throwe yon derk
2 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
z got the problem on seterday wont we #eergantibamess(2012)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
i beat him and @Mo_Farah.they wont can keep up wi the flying gin(2012)

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