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Use in varieties of Scots

wurkin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.1 6.4 4.8 19.9 0 87.5 0
Number of occurrences2512 3 2 0 8 0
Number of authors12 7 2 1 2

Occurrences of wurkin in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Wir wurkin haurd on page 49

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
A Wurkin-Class Man on page 47
A wurkin-class man that's whut eh am, on page 48
A wurkin-class man! on page 49
A wurkin-class man! on page 50

4 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
Eddie she maiks oot that ees wurkin away eevin thoa she noas that on page 41

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Is thare onie extra money for wurkin ben the daurk? on page 134

1 matches

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
pin` by fur a blether. Noo wi wurkin` roon thi toon, ye dinnae get
1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
acLiv Aye a hink it jus isnae wurkin oot!(2020) search twitter
Ats ma da awa oot wurkin a nite shift in a “very spec(2020) search twitter
Wurkin oan ma wee cerds fer ma cerd (2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
oot ur scratcher ur bells no wurkin lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ome o the gentry play on peer wurkin fowk. They pit some siller ab on page 106

1 matches

Mitchell, Ian R. Lallans 63 - Walkin Woundit, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
e. You keep reading about the wurkin class struggle, loon.”
class journalism, than aa the wurkin in factories will dae. They
2 matches

Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
at wurkin kye or sheep, on page 59

2 matches

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Kennin ma wurkin steid on page 37

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ae fell, eident, hard wurkin wuman, juist sat yonner, wi h
aa his wurkin life til than, an it yae tyme
it up it the ruif, at Yid wur wurkin on, an
hed been wurkin it Borth’ickbrae Burnfit fe
wurkin fur Wat Davies (the ex-Girnwu
7 matches

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