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The word 'wane'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
waneOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7129
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wane in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Wan fur rise An wan fur wane. on page 20

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
estyle generally maybe on the wane, but there must be lang spell(2020)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
gane, than till a wortheliche wane went thai that wey wi braid b on page 56

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aby grows she wis gaunnae buy wane her giro come through. Yi'll on page 58

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ve foreheid. They'll probably wane ma photie fur the paper inste on page 57

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
That willna wane on page 80

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
??. A bet they call that wane, Wayne....????????(2019)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Those summer days they wane and fade on page 8
Yer colossus that will never wane on page 12

2 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An these memries will wane. on page 38
the coul o Winter stairts tae wane an nature stairts tae bring on page 46
An Julaai an Ageest warm an wane, an daylicht shoartens doon. on page 47

3 matches

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