A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

waffs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 0 19.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences74 0 2 0 0 1
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of waffs in Corpus

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Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
orton luikit up an sees me an waffs. Ma hairt lowps; wir mither a on page 81

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
nae there. Clarty scunnersome waffs, wee lassies. Thank heavens a on page 79
s like glisks o lightnin. Wee waffs o lightnin seemed tae be on page 158

2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
wisnae ower keen on haein the waffs o the fermyaird in her hoose,
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
waffs ower the blinkan gear, an, do on page 115
an fer the yotun, whan Margit waffs a haand afore her. "Whar wir on page 147

2 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
In waffs o soon. on page 4

1 matches

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