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The word 'waster'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wasterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5157
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
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 72.7 6 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of waster in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
tes bein label't a baw heidit waster, or gettin taen a lend o. on page 110

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
™, in-bred, arrogant, drunken waster! We broke, tryin’ tae get a
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
t ma life, a nuttin, a fuckin waster! Yer right! An it's aw ma dai on page 11

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e piss aboot wae yer nae good waster pals.’ she fires right back
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
t ma life, a nuttin, a fuckin waster! Yer right! An it’s aw ma d
1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
rkie" organisations incluidin Waster Ross Biosphere, An Comunn Gai on page 13

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
in 1237, an Norrowa cedit the Waster Isles tae Scotland bi the Tre on page 40

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Latin an *sterran in the auld Waster Germanic leid.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Waster Yillmuir.
it Waster Yilmuir. A mynd on his faimli
mei daein sum wurk ithin the Waster Yillmuir hoose,
Ay, forenenst Waster Yillmuir hoose an onsteid wis
h an tae git throwe til baith Waster an
6 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
wi ma freens! Yit whan thïs waster o a sinn o yers cums hame, ef on page 97

1 matches

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