A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

aywis Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 2 13.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences144 9 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 2 2 1

Occurrences of aywis in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
uire'll be at the back ae it. Aywis in bother, that yin.' | on page 1

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
as he thocht o the wee box he aywis cairried in a pooch. Raw resi
hee waakin. Thair main worry, aywis, thair main concern, wis no t
yed saftly. “A wumman canna aywis mak that deceesion. It michtn
3 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Tales Fae The Doric Side - Bullied, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Foo is it aywis me? on page 55
My ma Is aywis skint ... we're puir on page 56

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
“ wi neither meat nur watter, aywis luikin till the thunnerbirds'
1 matches

Diansangu, Mae Doric, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, poetry
the eens fit are aywis nae bad ava,
1 matches

Diansangu, Mae naebdy likes a clype, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, poetry
PC lumsden. but she wid aywis
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ppy mush o smush, jist fit it aywis hid bin, a hantle o dweeble c
wyce wee loon fas fingers war aywis ettlin tae collect things. Aa
ongs liked him because he wis aywis clean. The ither Plongs rikki
broon stag’s hairt, he’d aywis wintit tae daunce.
4 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
at ivree letir or letir paer aywis merks the sam soond, as notid
1 matches

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