A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wearan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wearanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.893
ORK - Orkney 89.4 9 3
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
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 wearan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
twenty year - I guess that's wearan on. on page 33
He wis wearan bright green troosers and a p on page 35
onted wi a big, black man, no wearan any claes! on page 59
- that's me coat! I must be wearan thine!" They totter home in s on page 70

4 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
He wis wearan a coolie made oot o sea weed on page 90

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ley realised that the man was wearan a violet cloak. He didna seem
e tuck intae his belt. He wis wearan long robes, a purple cloak th
rly soor-lukkan wife whar wis wearan square glesses exactly the sh
haed aboot its eyes. She wis wearan a cloak, teu, an emerald een.
4 matches

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