A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wasting'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wastingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.966
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
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 wasting in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
lhoodship can't be seen to be wasting money on anything which might on page 35

1 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
a smudge o licht tae port, da Wasting,
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
r wi e time," she sade, "than wasting id in askan puzzles at hev no on page 67

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
wint awa and left it burning, wasting paraffin wisna the worst o’
1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
y and arrested the snitch for wasting there time lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
hat stupid tae ye, why are ye wasting yer time oan it? Ye ken whaur (2021) twitter link