A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wraps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wrapsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.655
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wraps in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
nxious or hiv flashbacks. She wraps her paws aroon ma neck an cha(2019)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
h’d tried tae keep it under wraps, embarrassed an ashamed as ah
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
The doactor wraps the wean up in his jaicket, a on page xx

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Briggs, Susi Diva, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central - Dumfries and Galloway, poetry
And wraps it in her licht
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
t instead of keeping it under wraps for a proper PR launch. No! W(2020)