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The word 'warkt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
warktOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of warkt in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
t syne then he hus leeved and warkt in sindrie pairts o Scotland on page 109

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Warkt guid ti ilka body baur himsel on page 40

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab A Newsin Wi Jack Aitken, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Central, poetry
hair nae dictionar she’s no warkt oan!
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 82 - The Banes o Alba, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
she warkt the weather on page 32

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Weel as it warkt oot naebody got hurt ava, tho on page 59
wis keepin pace wi him as he warkt his wey atween the stanes. An on page 65

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
As shuin as she had warkt oot the richt wey o nursin it on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
(curiously, fir me, he ne'er warkt in the mines as a young man a on page 133

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
YDEN wis born in Dumfries and warkt as an art teacher in Dumfries on page 91

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
an tuk fer tae mak breid. She warkt that wee bit intae a big boul on page 9
irtha, ye ir gettin yersel aa warkt up aboot a hale lock o thïng on page 89

2 matches

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