A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wyr'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wyrOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.651
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 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 wyr in Corpus

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General Central

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
ir a face the way her systers wyr, byt she wis pleasin in her a
n a the Sluagh. Fyr the Sidhe wyr an auld folk, even as demons
an auld folk, even as demons wyr bairns and thyr magics and po
ns and thyr magics and powers wyr aulder thyn time, fyr the Sid
lder thyn time, fyr the Sidhe wyr iver a race apairt fae time.
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