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Use in varieties of Scots

wal Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.4 6.2 0 0 63.9 20.7 22.1
Number of occurrences3012 0 0 11 2 5
Number of authors9 3 1 1 4

Occurrences of wal in Corpus

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Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
n stertit up fir Oor Leddie's Wal whilk stauns bi the short wey on page 14

9 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ional capital wi its bases in Wal] Street and London, an repres on page 94

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
vairsions o Cornelis van der Wal's Frisian poem Each an Sipel,
ead Bruinja, Cornelis van der Wal, Abe de Vries, Anne Feddema a
2 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
rsel faain doon an aafil deep wal. on page 8
shö lookit at da sides o da wal, an noticed at dev wir filt w on page 9
; an dey bed at da boddam o a wal-" on page 74
did dey bide at da boddam o a wal?" on page 75
da Dormoose. "Richt athin da wal." on page 76

11 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
ored for Windyridge Cottages, Wal Raa for Well Road, Sooth Enn
1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
ti dae, liggs speldert bi the wal,
1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
oonded on the sheddaes on the wal. She turnt tae the mirror an on page 19

1 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
A well's a wal, a wall's a waa, on page 37
Fur wal sins an faichers, on page 51

2 matches

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Lik''a Tam ca't on a wal'; on page 36

1 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
An muldy bre'd wal sta yer eatin on page 29

1 matches

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