A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

waatchan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.6 0 0 79.5 0 0 0
Number of occurrences80 0 8 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of waatchan in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Darling's waatchan the fock on the pier fae the on page 9
Inga's at the helm, waatchan fer lowes, fer shifts i'the d on page 23
cadia's craesh thinks Margit, waatchan her smoosie bairn an Higgie t on page 95
Thir plenty wi thaim. Eynar's waatchan fae ahint his bottles fer Noo on page 131
u's sat at the waa o the bay, waatchan twatree yoles laanchan fer th on page 147
Also on pages 161
6 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
I'd hid a bad feeleen waatchan im on page 23

1 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
A cattyface sits waatchan on the fence,
1 matches

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