A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wa' Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2 10.4 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences124 7 0 0 0 1
Number of authors9 3 5 1

Occurrences of wa' 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.

Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
n fuck ye, albums deid in the wa'er, they looked doon oan me... on page 3

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The writing on the wa's o devotion. on page 20

1 matches

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry

2 matches

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
instructions tae read on the wa's o' the booth, but there wis
1 matches

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
0 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
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@FaeFoggie tweeted
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Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
(2019) twitter link