A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'widny'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
widnyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 widny in Corpus

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West Central

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
re. But we dae, we dae, or we widny be here. Whitever leid we cho
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ll 'is' as 'iz' an widnae as 'widny'. The spelling 'is' an widnae on page 19

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
ould walk through fire and it widny hurt you?
€™re dead agin thievin. Donna widny rob hooses or steal sumpn oot
2 matches

@changed_days tweeted
@C_M286 @Bairdric1 A honestly widny even say av been an arsehole (2021) twitter link

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