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wanchancy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 9.3 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1818 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors10 10

Occurrences of wanchancy in Corpus

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Central

Donaldson, Gordon Lallans 90 - Echty-Echt, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
It was a gey wanchancy year, 1988. A twal-month afor on page 36

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
he cause o the Covenant. That wanchancy ploy cam aboot sax months eft on page 26

1 matches

Burns, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
We tak tent o this wanchancy lowe on page 69

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
ere, we got oot, it wis a gey wanchancy sort o place. Nick, though, h on page 76

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
that bad oot o the Union, or Wanchancy Covenant, as anither freen o on page 17
ethin new. Athin a year o the Wanchancy Covenant (a.k.a. The Treaty o on page 41
yon appeal an ruled that the Wanchancy Covenant had nae proveesions on page 43
ignorin the proveesions o the Wanchancy Covenant, fae near the verra on page 45
>5o0s, but the fack that the Wanchancy Covenant wis nivver whit thei on page 71
Also on pages 140
7 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ke a giant mushroom. It wis a wanchancy thing tae dae. She ainly need on page 131
canny in this room. There is wanchancy stuff in here and ye mauna to on page 141
anger. There wis somethin gey wanchancy aboot this haill business, an on page 143

3 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
The deavin watters jeel, wanchancy boats on page 30

1 matches

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
itizens in the aye-chyngin an wanchancy world o the future.”4
1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
ntra, lassie, ye’re seen as wanchancy.
1 matches

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nco, byordnar, fell, fremmit, wanchancy, ugsome, unbraw etc.(2020) search twitter

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