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The word 'wain'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wainOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71510
ORK - Orkney
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 441.7 5 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wain 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.

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
he morn he wes liftit ontil a wain an out-harled inti the yaird,
1 matches

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
ole life. Ever since ah wis a wain when ah used tae use two hood
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
As ma wind wis stertin’ tae wain, A came face tae face wi’ n
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
anics o spaces frae Charles's Wain on page 7

1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
ow could ye choose a clueless wain
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
throu the street in a muckle wain yokit tae a great sture beast on page 135

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Guid looks they a' but wain on page 11

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
hoak", "juke", "neb", "wee", "wain" #ulsterscots #DerryGirls htt(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Tae an iver-wuntherin wain, on page 43
ein seven ages. At furst, the wain, on page 51
A wain agane, an wae nae mine o ocht on page 52
Whar jook, the wain? on page 53
An thonner, redd o worl an wain, on page 54

5 matches

General Ulster

Mc Donnell, John , (Facebook 2021) Ulster, prose
Whun A wus a wain A loved gan roon wae Mae Mith
1 matches

Mc Donnell, John Joogins, (no publisher recorded 2020) Ulster, prose
Yin day whun a wus a wain a snaked intae whut wis cal,d
1 matches

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