A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wasting Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 1 3 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences62 2 0 2 0 0
Number of authors6 2 2 2

Occurrences of wasting in Corpus

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Central

@MizLiot tweeted
hat stupid tae ye, why are ye wasting yer time oan it? Ye ken whaur (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
y and arrested the snitch for wasting there time lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
r wi e time," she sade, "than wasting id in askan puzzles at hev no on page 67

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
wint awa and left it burning, wasting paraffin wisna the worst o’
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
lhoodship can't be seen to be wasting money on anything which might on page 35

1 matches

Sinclair, James Makkin Hame, (Shetland For Wirds 2018) Shetland, poetry
a smudge o licht tae port, da Wasting,
1 matches

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