A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

werk Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 1.5 5.9 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences83 4 0 1 0 0
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of werk in Corpus

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Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
Coorse Ah hud tae gang tae ma werk sae Morton wid gang tae ma mi on page 78

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
an Old Norse equivalents are werk and verk. In the Aulder Scots
examples o work. Efter 1700, werk comes naewey. The stannartise
2 matches

Doric

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
hirty years? You dinna hae ti werk like e cuddie an e tyke an yo on page 26

2 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
I’m awa till ma bed. I’ve werk in e mornin.
brae coontin yowes! Ca’ aat werk! An e stink o ee fin ee come
2 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
@KirsteenMullay yes WERK IT (2015) twitter link