A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wirker Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0.5 3 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences51 2 1 1 0 0
Number of authors4 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of wirker in Corpus

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Central

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
A bein Kawar hid a puir ootby wirker. Ae day the foothie carle say
1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
ogue wi a young female social wirker, fa arreengit for im tae be g on page 30

2 matches

Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
e Guidwife wis a hard ootside wirker an wid sweeng a cubby o' tang
1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
t wid du tak me on as a pey'd wirker?' So aff he set. on page 123

1 matches

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