A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

weren 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 weren in Corpus

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Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
daein a flittin this mornin, weren't we, Bob? Nae harm in that." on page 27

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
date fat people. The old ones weren't doing the job properly. It' on page 117

1 matches

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
ey were jist made up stories, weren’t they? But I hae tae say,
1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
en it’s no guid. However, ye weren’t being rude in that instanc (2021) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
d could be beheided, an at ee weren't till talk nonsense. on page 83

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Wen weren on page 9

1 matches

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