A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

waanted Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 5.5 3 59.6 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1911 2 6 0 0 0
Number of authors8 3 1 4

Occurrences of waanted in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e. Songbirds. It was song she waanted. Jack. A guid name. Clear soo on page 1

7 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ye'd ne'er believe, fowk waanted tae touch us! on page 74
Truth is the Tories juist waanted revenge, on page 75

2 matches

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
nt that,” she leed. “Jist waanted a race. You lost.”
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
This was no’ the answer she waanted. “A’m goin’ ower there!
1 matches

Doric

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
epads, though whit the fuck A waanted wi pencils and notepads. When
whit’s this WE shite ?“ A waanted tae ken.
2 matches

Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
, the chisel an a baer oot. I waanted tae see if I could prise the on page 20

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
nar is thowt o flittan, ivver waanted tae bide somepiece ither. The on page 76

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
The bairns aal waanted fags - on page 8

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
Dursleys haed ivry thing they waanted, but they haed a secret forby
ck at the whisperers as if he waanted tae say sometheen tae them, b
2 matches

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