A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wah Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3 4.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences109 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of wah in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
is gaun on wis Tapiwa (TAP-EE-WAH), a lassie in the same cless on page 29

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
been clumsily pinned tae the wah. Yince you've hit a losin str on page 30
by steel bars and the ootside wah wis covered in rid graffiti. on page 71

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
This is drehvin me up thi wah on page 97
it's like talkin ti thi wah on page 106
Thir sat on thi wah on page 117
Hadrian's Wah. on page 120

4 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
tae the large cloack oan the wah. Gittin tae the point where t
the station attached tae the wah. A long lastin reminder ae Le
2 matches

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
Had the pic on ma bedroom wah- only failed tae name 3 COYR (2020) twitter link