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Use in varieties of Scots

wurdie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 3.6 1.5 0 0 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences117 1 0 0 2 1
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of wurdie in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
lesson I here pass on is weel wurdie o the trauchle it has taen me on page 24

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Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
n ye a muckle wrang an I'm no wurdie ti be yir wife." on page 42

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
espeare, an it's a buik weill-wurdie in its awn richt. on page 116

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
ther A. D. Izatt's tribute is wurdie o thaim. on page 122

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
herous man', an is nae langer wurdie. on page 141

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
coorse; the’r monie anither wurdie cultural concairn!)
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Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
the contributor of the Doric wurdie “Bier” – ah hope it’s a l(2014) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
anither source o information wurdie o listenin til, an at’s ae
10 i the Beuk o Ezekiel. Weel wurdie
2 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
luk nae bother Tae rhyme yin wurdie wi anither A doot ma heid mau on page 31

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