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Use in varieties of Scots

wring Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 1 4.5 29.8 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences92 3 3 0 1 0
Number of authors7 1 3 2 1

Occurrences of wring in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
ah could get away wi it, ah'd wring the bugger's necks,' Granda s on page 38

1 matches

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
can stamp oan it. Cannae even wring this charlatan’s neck.
1 matches

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
et of tomata sass: ye hiv tae wring it tae get the hembist drap o on page 40

1 matches

Reid, Adeline Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Clootie Duff, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Wring oot the cloot fae het watter on page 20

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ve te ilky season, chaavin te wring a livin fae the lan it Hillie on page 95

1 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
is really means, you need tae wring id's neck, on page 96
"Hoo dae you wring a burdie's neck, whut's flapp on page 97

2 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Hands, come wring; on page 4

1 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
tae wring his keep oot o yon histy grun on page 129

1 matches

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