A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wasp Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.6 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences75 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of wasp in Corpus

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Central

Scott, Colin nobody remembers the birdman - Empty Nest, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
we funn the wasp-bink on page 171

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
She must huv thocht she hud a wasp', byke doon there. And then, on page 102

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
uv a face like a dog chewin a wasp. Workin as a police ofhcer he on page 6

1 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
The Weedgie Wasp is gallus, on page 16

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
Jus seen a wasp aw fly intae a wee spider web(2020) search twitter

Doric

@FaeFoggie tweeted
and some Quine run awa Fae a wasp. I just kept clickin and got (2020) search twitter
he wis runnin fae a radge o a wasp.(2020) search twitter