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The word 'wracks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wracksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4113
ORK - Orkney 99.4 10 2
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) 12.5 1 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)

Occurrences of wracks in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Darling gangs tae view the wracks on page 34
Varday's skin, trou the quiet wracks haaden in tow, tae the haaf a on page 44
the arkaeolojist gans at the wracks. "Pardon?" says Noor, than, " on page 56
an relents. "Whit like's yir wracks?" "Big," sheu says. "Blank," on page 75
The wracks is spaekan. Thir unfaaldan, a on page 101
Also on pages 116, 117, 133
9 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
wracks me tae greetan, pivvered apae on page 19

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 75 - On War, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
ll yeuk that provokes wars an wracks haill kinriks for nocht?
1 matches

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