A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wasn't Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.6 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences109 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of wasn't in Corpus

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Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
'It was Steven, wasn't it?' on page 1

2 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
tae get the model done.. And wasn't on much.. Been the same here (2023) twitter link
Roddie.. Couple o' days, but wasn't full on.. Ye get intae the ha (2022) twitter link
fiddle aboot wi' settings, I wasn't getting my usual peeps? Fine (2023) twitter link
Well... TBH.. I wasn't looking for much today at Tyn (2023) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
https://t.co/Awd8z3CSvG Wasn't ettlin tae lairn this but wis(2020) search twitter

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
look impressed, damn right I wasn't impressed!!! (2022) twitter link

Doric

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
e Aiberdeen for Heavens Sake. Wasn't he the Cooncillor for Seaton (2023) twitter link