A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

worsit Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 0 16.6 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences120 11 1 0 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of worsit in Corpus

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Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hauns oot an haud this hank o worsit till I wyve the oo inno a baa
ay hodgin aboot an drappin ma worsit'.
ther set aff again wippin the worsit roon an roon the baa an picki
n faister wi the wippin o the worsit, an the tellin o the tale:
thon, Minnie near drappit the worsit aathegither wi excitement.
9 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
y Ann hid a dall, a cooker, a worsit Teddy wi blue troosers, an a
ace an quate, while she wyved worsit ganzits an
2 matches

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Imagean a broon, checked worsit cot, on page 101

1 matches

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