Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

waatched	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	13.4	0	52.8	39.7	5.8	0	13.3
Number of occurrences	43	0	35	4	1	0	3
Number of authors	8		4	2	1		1

Occurrences of waatched 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.

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Winnie waatched es the soor faced driver trie on page 19
Winnie smiled es she waatched er pal styter awa in the dire on page 21
Morrice waatched es the stewardess wifie stair on page 42
ng awa an funk wi's." Morrice waatched es she struttit aff, only sto on page 44
1 He waatched es the smile slid fae Joyce's on page 45
Also on pages 46, 54, 56, 66, 72, 74, 76, 77, 79, 83
15 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
y bubblin up inside him as he waatched him unhook her bikini tap an on page 12
rrice's heid wis reelin as he waatched the Jeweller kiss Joyce on th on page 15
lly coontit. Ah jist steed an waatched, syne said fitivver Ah thocht on page 19
Vi waatched her knuckles turn fite as she on page 28
tin te get rale roosed as she waatched Elspeth kirn wi her sweet. on page 29
Also on pages 37, 44, 52, 65, 71, 74, 84, 90
13 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Beldie waatched es Dottie gaed fleein ben the on page 26
wa," fuspered Dottie, es they waatched im clim in ower is van an scr on page 27
liver cream, Ah thocht, es Ah waatched er sweyin back an fore. on page 32
Ah felt like a feel es Ah waatched is fingirs flee ower the keyb on page 50

4 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Doric Sweet Talk, (timberford.demon 2000) Doric, poetry
An we waatched fowk
1 matches

Wilson, Heidi and Isla Then and noo, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Keith, prose
Nae bidy waatched o’er them in the playgrun t
1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
gave a wee gummy smile as she waatched the retro-font lyrics slide u
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Sheu waatched the Deep Wheel approch, gray- on page 3
pirits, I kennan her ploys is waatched by ivry lighter ithe Hoose, c on page 48
, no this," he says. Noor wis waatched the meeteen, takkan notts. Sh on page 87

3 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
We waatched the newsan on page 10

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
in. Da soond wis deafenin. We waatched in horror as trows slippit in
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
e an ah went roon the back an waatched Harry an Gary oil the chains
our weans,’ ah saed. ‘She waatched frae the shore wi a wickit gr
We waatched the weans o Latharna play unn
3 matches