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The word 'wadder'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wadderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 133.7 23 11
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 wadder in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
scairts an dunts an blashy wadder. on page 24

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
shö dusna flite aboot coorse wadder on page 49

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
pitten on fur da news, an da wadder, an Songs a Praise on a Sunda on page 5

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
whaar nedder laand nor wadder favoured on page 30

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
wadder an da time is expressed wi he on page 56
ubjects whin spaekin aboot da wadder (it is rainin, on page 85

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
"Weel, hit's a boo o wadder fae da sooth-aest, on page 23
bi tirl o tide an boo o wadder, till on page 33
fur coorse wadder, noosted lambs or hens. on page 48
January, an da wadder's fae Siberia; on page 98

5 matches

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
hae a break. Always keepin a wadder eye ta look oot for any rain
1 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
Willie wis watchin wadder, windrin erts
1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
ida mont o October! An wi da wadder at he wis efter dat, dey wirn
ryeen lightsome, wi da better wadder, an it wisna for oot troo da
2 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
He wis bön a spael a akwirt wadder, wind an drush back an fore,
1 matches

Tait, Christian Da Hegri, (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
Whittled oot bi da wadder’s sharp knife.
1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Moarnin Ida Kames, (Shetland For Wirds 2007) Shetland, poetry
da töd o wadder forecasts,
1 matches

Sinclair, James Yarnin, (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
a lobster can survive dis wadder.
1 matches

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
Du wadder's no see warm, im likkly ower
1 matches

Sinclair, James Murmansk, (Scottish Poetry Library 2019) Shetland, poetry
Da worst o da lot wis da wadder, graet muckle waves
1 matches

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