Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

waatchin	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	7.5	0.5	24.1	0	11.6	0	22.1
Number of occurrences	24	1	16	0	2	0	5
Number of authors	6	1	2		1		2

Occurrences of waatchin in Corpus

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Central

Strachan, Shane Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
and been waatchin on the telly... on page 22

1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
in wis a big mistak, Ye'v bin waatchin ower muckle o yon American ch on page 15
Winnie rubbit Rosie's back, waatchin es the contints o the hat slo on page 19
d, en." Jinny opened er menu, waatchin es Sandy teen a sly keek it t on page 34
ays sittin aside the phone an waatchin the letterbox. on page 52
kittlins' mettery-eed mither waatchin es they capered aroon aneth t on page 88

6 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ach tool doon on his sun-bed, waatchin as the waiters dunced aroon a on page 10
steed fir the neest hauf-oor, waatchin as anither boy in fite shorts on page 13
sittin nursin ess black ee an waatchin aat prick on the neest balcon on page 17
it - if ye ask me, ye've bin waatchin ower muckle o yon 'Come Dine on page 25
tannin wi their airms faaled, waatchin. An syne the door opened an b on page 66
Also on pages 94
6 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Syne it wis like waatchin an accident aboot te happen f on page 33

1 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
We startit aff waatchin e Parade in Princes Street. I
i gabbin wi her freens an nae waatchin her bairn. Still nae hairm de
��s an we ett it on iss bench waatchin e doos cooin an peckin e crum
3 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
waatchin, waatchin an shynin. on page 27

2 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
t sicht o Alice, es shae stud waatchin thim, an hae checkt himsel qu on page 78
wile log at furst, but efter waatchin it a minute or twa, shae made on page 84
leanin hir heid on hir haun, waatchin the settin sun, an thinking o on page 124

3 matches

@Angelinekking tweeted
weans sittin aboot the hoose waatchin TV for she couldnae afford th(2020) search twitter
its gei an hard tae aye be waatchin yer spelling for thon oul Twi(2020) search twitter