A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wasnt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wasntOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.962
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 12.8 5 1
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 wasnt in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
wasnt my best idea, I just wanted t on page 24

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@cathedral_sport a did say it wasnt right - did you miss that bi (2020) twitter link
s both ways though - pity it wasnt midweek tho lol (2020) twitter link
in horrible conditions - it wasnt ur night but keep the heads u (2020) twitter link
is up to me n thats a fact - wasnt that long ago everyone was en (2020) twitter link
yes1108 @Westside_AFC a no it wasnt in the league lol (2021) twitter link