Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whack	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5	4.6	9	9.9	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	16	9	6	1	0	0	0
Number of authors	11	6	4	1

Occurrences of whack in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
spects ah've gave it the full whack as faur as the local colour a on page vii

1 matches

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
'Ah, ye cannae whack it,' said Tam, savourin a big on page 50

1 matches

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
for a mair forceful an louder whack. Mr. MacNeil also follaed the on page 42

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Ah'll whack an Ah'll whummle an belt an A on page 66
k wi me an some hae had their whack o me, an aa wad hae their tak on page 77

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
are oot o whack. If David wis any kind o a ma on page 62

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
e whit that lot done tae Us a whack of years ago ??. ????????. ??(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
itbaw in the ffa cup - canna whack it (2021) twitter link
hts at port seton - ee canna whack it lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Northwords Now 43 - Shane Strachan, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
Hear the repeated whack o darts on page 19

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
at", an gave it a richt hardy whack. He disappeared intae a clood
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
a wee gamie o' 'whackshite'! 'WHACK........shite!'(2016) search twitter

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ma ither site ah hiv upgraded Whack Haggis game sae it can noo be(2015) search twitter
Ah scored sivventy on the Whack a Haggis game aat https://t.c(2018) search twitter
ount. Hes gyan tae gie me a whack o sivven thoosand poun if ah (2019) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Anither good whack and I peered through the gloo on page 72

1 matches