A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'waatchan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
waatchanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.483
ORK - Orkney 79.5 8 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of waatchan in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Darling's waatchan the fock on the pier fae the on page 9
Inga's at the helm, waatchan fer lowes, fer shifts i'the d on page 23
cadia's craesh thinks Margit, waatchan her smoosie bairn an Higgie t on page 95
Thir plenty wi thaim. Eynar's waatchan fae ahint his bottles fer Noo on page 131
u's sat at the waa o the bay, waatchan twatree yoles laanchan fer th on page 147
Also on pages 161
6 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
I'd hid a bad feeleen waatchan im on page 23

1 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
A cattyface sits waatchan on the fence,
1 matches

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