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Use in varieties of Scots

wil Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 4.1 3 9.9 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences148 2 1 0 0 3
Number of authors9 5 2 1 1

Occurrences of wil in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
, Craigie" ah tell him. "When wil] she be here?" on page 76
unt imagines their wee lassie wil] grow up and sell their erse on page 110

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
als that it suld nocht be his wil in that case, no in nane othi on page 20

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ures include ‘The thummart, wil’-cat, brock and tod” (pol
assembles in his ‘thummart, wil'-cat, brock and tod.’
2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
Lat Ðy wil be dün,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
ons with hym bot thai that he wil mak ful payment for. Ande tha
1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
if aw a wee love bombin slebs wil be so quick tae shower is wae(2020) search twitter

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
e," Jist poor anither dram an wil gin thi morn. Noo thi reality on page 50

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
n ilka een att hummels himsel wil be reesen oot." on page 110

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
ither spaekan, an monee o us wil ai haed differ fok wir spokan
1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Noo they say that fir mae wil'fare, on page 32
Wae a smile hae wil recal' some vivid foreign sce on page 43
Shure mony's the time yae wil wun'ner, on page 48

3 matches

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