A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whatna Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 9.8 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2119 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of whatna in Corpus

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Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
e'd, ma mirth wes aw awa. See whatna dour auld skunner A'm claucht on page 45
Moira: Ma puir Jockie! Whatna dour weird he maun dree, wi n on page 46
Collegianer: Ai, whatna couthie sowl! She's ower guid on page 47
et and deid claes ti hap him. Whatna blek burnin shame! He haesna on page 48

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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
?" A wis ettlin at pyntin oot whatna tirrivee the war whiles heard on page 125

2 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
urlie ootlin, Edward Hyde. An whatna richt feechie craitur is Hyde on page 119

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
?" I wis ettlin at pyntin oot whatna tirrivee the war whiles heard
see that, Airchie, I can see whatna awfu job it maun be tae hae t
2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
he caur an awa inti the lift. Whatna leear maun a wrate that ane!
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - The Man Wha Jeopardeized The Continued Existence O The Universe, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
mthing awfu happens! Wha kens whatna skaith
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Beatrice cam back onywey, an whatna shame no tae get the weir oot
a feelin aamaist lik vertigo, whatna faur awa she wis fae her gp.
2 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
ey say ‘Parliament’. Sae, whatna effect does this weel-intendi
1 matches

Doric

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
fair enjoyed the collection. Whatna braw makar Hershaw is!
1 matches

Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Whatna weecked pair, what perfect tr on page 42

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