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Use in varieties of Scots

wails Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences64 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of wails in Corpus

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Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
And a Frenchman wails, 'C'est dur, on page 34

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Ma," he shouted again, atween wails. on page 70

1 matches

Robertson, James Melt (Yin), (Kettillonia 2001) Central, poetry
A bummer wails; in the fire a dour bit stick
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
hen! Shetto Tigers!’ McDade wails intae the cunt’s blood spat
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Wails Mary as eence mair her wellie on page 15

1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Wi eldrich skirls an wails. on page 32

1 matches

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