Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wage	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6.9	7.7	1.5	39.7	11.6	0	0
Number of occurrences	22	15	1	4	2	0	0
Number of authors	17	12	1	2	2

Occurrences of wage in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
rest o us, leevin aff Jock's wage, him worked tae the bone. Les on page 78

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
gonnae earn a quid or a livin wage fae month tae month. And that on page 28
re fur a pittance oor minimum wage. Or brek on page 85

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
fowk strandit on the minimum wage in modren 'service industries on page 10

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
haed is pickled an thi war is wage-in on page 70

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
'll teach yi tae ask whit the wage is before yi start a job, Tur on page 144

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
a week - mair nor twice his wage - but on a day like this, th on page 17

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
e muckle in his pouch. A fair wage is the phrase, but there's na on page 72

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ents an that, no even minimum wage maist ay them. The companies
aff - yer labour fur a fair wage, except it’s no. The only w
constant. Yer a slave tae the wage.
3 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e caught wind o me drinkin ma wage away doon the pub. But that�
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n the smeddum that it tuk tae wage this bitterest o weirs, tae k
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
10% bonus on only wan week's wage and a sneeze guard. Lit that: (2020) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
we recommend schools should wage a planned and unrelenting cam (2019) twitter link

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
iz tae gie his workers a good wage. A rare sentiment at that tim
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
(And niver asks a rise in wage). on page 23
bairns and wife tae keep, me wage is cheust a sight. on page 39

3 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
oan the back o his nepotistic wage-packet, on page 7

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
in da best o dem, he set on a wage, promisin ta gie dem a silver on page 103

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
d hotel, from paying a living wage to serving such super meals x(2020) search twitter