Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

waster	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4	3	0	0	0	62	4.4
Number of occurrences	13	6	0	0	0	6	1
Number of authors	6	4				1	1

Occurrences of waster in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
t ma life, a nuttin, a fuckin waster! Yer right! An it's aw ma dai on page 11

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
tes bein label't a baw heidit waster, or gettin taen a lend o. on page 110

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Latin an *sterran in the auld Waster Germanic leid.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e piss aboot wae yer nae good waster pals.’ she fires right back
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
�, in-bred, arrogant, drunken waster! We broke, tryin’ tae get a
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
t ma life, a nuttin, a fuckin waster! Yer right! An it’s aw ma d
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Waster Yillmuir.
it Waster Yilmuir. A mynd on his faimli
mei daein sum wurk ithin the Waster Yillmuir hoose,
Ay, forenenst Waster Yillmuir hoose an onsteid wis
h an tae git throwe til baith Waster an
6 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
wi ma freens! Yit whan thïs waster o a sinn o yers cums hame, ef on page 97

1 matches