A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wifes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 2.5 0 0 0 10.3 7.7
Number of occurrences85 0 0 0 1 2
Number of authors8 5 1 2

Occurrences of wifes 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

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
autch decent men makin' their wifes dae that!' on page 17

1 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
, the type eh thing that auld wifes use tae eat thir dinner oan w on page 7

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Twa auld wifes aboot ages, on page 39

1 matches

McFarlane, Ishbel Does Scotland compare weil wi ither places fir wee bairnies?, (The National 2019) Central, newspaper
ma ancestors did. Twa howdie wifes, the bairnie’s faither an m
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
at court because i called ma wifes boyfriend a retard for drinki(2020) search twitter

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Sterting ti think ma wifes having an affair wi the parce(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
es allooed ye tae divorce yer wifes acause yer hairts wus haird. on page 9

1 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
linekking @Ultach1014 Aye, ma wifes heid is turnt! ?????? (2021) twitter link

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