A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wor Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.1 1.5 0 0 11.6 20.7 24.2
Number of occurrences173 0 0 2 2 5
Number of authors11 3 1 1 4

Occurrences of wor in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
got in fae school ma ma an da wor talkin aboot Lesley Ann. Ma m on page 129

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 74 - Distempered, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
is wor’ mair nor gowd frae ony man
1 matches

Clark, Sara Scot Free -The Psychic Cost O Uisin Scots, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
y, rollin-pín at the ready. "WOR-ARE YOU ON ABAAT NAH?" ah'll
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
oat ipo da laft at her faider wor sometimes. Whin shü wis aa r on page 30
fae anidder fashion era. Shü wor a weel-cut burgundy suit wi m on page 42

2 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
see There is terp behind oor wor lady whereas BOJO dinnae... t(2020) search twitter
@alisonmccaffer2 Ta, wor lassie ??????????????????(2020) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Bring the weans yince we git wor broth." on page 57

1 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Wor een wus apen't til the warl, on page 9
Tha maist hairtscad is fur wor ain. on page 55

2 matches

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Wor ain Hamely Tongue is the Ulla on page 45

1 matches

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
king @molach95 Ah yes, as in "wor ain folk" we would definitely(2020) search twitter

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