Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'werk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

werk	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.4	8	5
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	6.5	2	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.4	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	2	1
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 werk in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
@KirsteenMullay yes WERK IT (2015) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
I’m awa till ma bed. I’ve werk in e mornin.
brae coontin yowes! Ca’ aat werk ! An e stink o ee fin ee come
2 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
hirty years? You dinna hae ti werk like e cuddie an e tyke an yo on page 26

2 matches

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
Coorse Ah hud tae gang tae ma werk sae Morton wid gang tae ma mi on page 78

1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
an Old Norse equivalents are werk and verk. In the Aulder Scots
examples o work. Efter 1700, werk comes naewey. The stannartise
2 matches