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The word 'waken'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wakenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of waken in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
, an geid me a shout, so fyle waken bain thi peer, we caim across on page 46

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Fin I waken up, I canna bit grin,
Waken in the mornin sin shinin bric
We waken up, athing closed in wi haar,
3 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
e one day; and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying acros
1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
Jist waken up at the #peterhead macdonal(2020)

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
The noise didnae waken her parents. Maybe they dismi
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
annae dae it at night.. It'll waken the neighbours... (2023) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
g afore Leonard an Hughie wud waken. on page 11

1 matches

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