Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wursels	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.8	3.6	0	0	0	10.3	4.4
Number of occurrences	9	7	0	0	0	1	1
Number of authors	5	3				1	1

Occurrences of wursels in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
whole box ae marshmallas tae wursels. When we got back intae schoo on page 34
boot us gaun intae Glasgow by wursels. Ah tried tae say tae Charlen on page 50
n Clicky walkin up tae school wursels cause Yvonne wis aff sick an on page 169

4 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
wursels on good workmanship and when
ngers and an umbrella. We got wursels settled and ah heided doon ta
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Scots wirds 'baith' 'haunds' 'wursels' 'fae' 'the morra' 'airm' 'wa
1 matches

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
Hon Provost tae stop yaesin wursels, weans & wan in the company(2019) search twitter

Ulster

Reynolds, Charlie Krisamas time is draa’in near, (Ullans Speakers Association 2011) Ulster - Coleraine, prose
or craturs naw as weel aff as wursels.
1 matches