Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

woeful	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	1.5	1.5	0	9.9	0	0	4.8
Number of occurrences	5	3	0	1	0	0	1
Number of authors	3	1		1			1

Occurrences of woeful in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
a ponytail which reveals her woeful inability tae evenly apply th
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
such-an-such cos he’s been woeful an how keepin a clean-sheet i
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
e. Oor insatiable appetite an woeful income, versus oor wilful cap
1 matches

Orkney

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the haimlock flooer tae mak a woeful wine. on page 24

1 matches

Ulster

Watson, Audrey Yarns 3 - The Tay Meetin, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Fermanagh, prose
e had the minster tellin some woeful yarns….. the church weeman
1 matches