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Use in varieties of Scots

wane Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 2 1.5 19.9 0 20.7 13.3
Number of occurrences124 1 2 0 2 3
Number of authors9 4 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of wane in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
aby grows she wis gaunnae buy wane her giro come through. Yi'll on page 58

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ve foreheid. They'll probably wane ma photie fur the paper inste on page 57

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
That willna wane on page 80

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
??. A bet they call that wane, Wayne....????????(2019) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
gane, than till a wortheliche wane went thai that wey wi braid b on page 56

1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Wan fur rise An wan fur wane. on page 20

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
estyle generally maybe on the wane, but there must be lang spell(2020) search twitter

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Those summer days they wane and fade on page 8
Yer colossus that will never wane on page 12

2 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An these memries will wane. on page 38
the coul o Winter stairts tae wane an nature stairts tae bring on page 46
An Julaai an Ageest warm an wane, an daylicht shoartens doon. on page 47

3 matches

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