A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

was't Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences43 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of was't in Corpus

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Central

Hardie, George Lallans 67 - Ane Amang Monie, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Hamilton, poetry
was't the King and aa his Empire, on page 143

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
An spier'd what was't they ca'd her.
odern contractions like "what was't", but the kythin o the word "
2 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
'An fatnalike troke, was't?' A venturt. on page 88

1 matches

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