A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wernae Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 4.8 1.6 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences119 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of wernae in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ass that folk thocht ye mibbe wernae sae bad, efter aa. You took a on page 81

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Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
It's fair tae say they wernae chuffed. on page 12

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
stoppit. An aince the warkers wernae needit, they were flung ontae on page 147

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McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
e dress him in the claes that wernae there. They played at buttoni on page 64

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Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
boot wit happened. The others wernae the same either, and Livvy ha
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Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
s to gie awa, so we obviously wernae owrewhummlt wi demand!
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astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
They wernae muckle trinkets left fyr the
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Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Ye wernae listening, yer onto
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@jax6754 tweeted
sunshine tae.....so you defo wernae in Scotland?. So wonderin if (2015) search twitter

Doric

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
vernment has provit that they wernae in it jist tae dae a slap-das
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Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
o the Clampetts by fate. They wernae used tae indoor plumbin, it w on page 46

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