Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'wyce-like'

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Use in varieties of Scots

wyce-like	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.8	16	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	22.2	5	2
DUN - Dundee	31.9	3	1
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 wyce-like in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
bit the auld bodach seemed a wyce-like craitur, an naethin cud be wa
raye, till some bodie kind an wyce-like lowsed it aince mair.
2 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"Nou ye're spickin like a wyce-like bairnie!" said Humphy Dumphy, on page 82

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
lie be scowth for biggin up a wyce-like mercat. Tho the feck o thae 1
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
onie wyce-like Scots orthographie o pedigree on page 6

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 82 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Prestwick, prose
McClure sterts aff wi a rael wyce-like ower-vizzie o Scots spellin, on page 7

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
lins tint hir wuts (allouin a wyce-like explanation, forby, o coorse)
1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
owersettin), an is espaicial wyce-like .
1 matches

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
guage Project, chaired by the wyce-like Alan MacGillivray o Jordanhil
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
particklar accoont. Their ain wyce-like discourse on Scottish philoso on page 14
e are them that saw this as a wyce-like acceptance o the current pole on page 44
nduces in whit are supposedly wyce-like fowk is jaw-drappin, as cin b on page 119

3 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
tus for Scots in law wad be a wyce-like stert and the guid fowk in th on page 6
and wyce-like abeility. I hae nae inklin at on page 8

2 matches

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
fou o arsenic. An auldren and wyce-like wey o telling fowk: this, ye on page 63

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
. Bit leid daith is the maist wyce-like theoretical context for inter on page 9

1 matches