A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wabsters Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2 0 0 0 10.3 22.1
Number of occurrences104 0 0 0 1 5
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of wabsters in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
on himsel frae the Kilbarchan wabsters, in parteecular Agnes Lyle. on page 69

3 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
ed stories aboot ither gallus wabsters: Penelope that wove a claith
1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
s In Ulster they still cry em wabsters in the likes o Antrim. Great (2020) twitter link

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Hugh an Wulliam James wus aa wabsters forbye. Hugh wus ma great-gra on page 7
Forbye bein wabsters, Wulliam James an ma great-gr on page 8

5 matches

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