Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wail	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.1	2.5	4.5	0	11.6	0	0
Number of occurrences	10	5	3	0	2	0	0
Number of authors	8	4	2		2

Occurrences of wail in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
Through the wail ye cin hear the band leader, on page 3

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
we hear, throu aa the Flodden-wail, on page 29

1 matches

McCrory, Pat Lallans 56 - The Tale ae a Worm, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
full ae it, an let oot such a wail, on page 114

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
owels 0’ cock’a’leekie. Wail Ma wee black dug wis ben the
yelp an’ then a heard ‘um wail
2 matches

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Zombie: (Wail) Ah'm hameless. (Wail) on page 40

2 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Woopin wi' a gie loud wail on page 74

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
So dunna wail, my ting o snail, but come an on page 102

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
lifts a whaap, his wheedlin wail, on page 28

1 matches