A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

waakan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.9 0 0 89.4 0 0 0
Number of occurrences90 0 9 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of waakan in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
rdly-human knitch o need, but waakan. The bairn's een is clossan a on page 36
touchan trou seiven layers o waakan claes - an leuks ap at fower on page 107

2 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
uton - rolls o wartime wire, waakan doon the pier - scared on page 13
Waakan back wis slower, heavy pails on page 35
Tak me waakan doon the path tae whaur the o on page 63

3 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
I keep waakan on page 54

3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
Orkney language. A startid wi waakan an taakan an listenan: redisc
1 matches

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