A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wearan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 0 0 89.4 0 0 0
Number of occurrences90 0 9 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of wearan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
twenty year - I guess that's wearan on. on page 33
He wis wearan bright green troosers and a p on page 35
onted wi a big, black man, no wearan any claes! on page 59
- that's me coat! I must be wearan thine!" They totter home in s on page 70

4 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
He wis wearan a coolie made oot o sea weed on page 90

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ley realised that the man was wearan a violet cloak. He didna seem
e tuck intae his belt. He wis wearan long robes, a purple cloak th
rly soor-lukkan wife whar wis wearan square glesses exactly the sh
haed aboot its eyes. She wis wearan a cloak, teu, an emerald een.
4 matches

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