A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wirkan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 0 0 119.2 0 0 0
Number of occurrences120 0 12 0 0 0
Number of authors2 2

Occurrences of wirkan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
He wis wirkan momeen, noon and night and lu on page 24
Jim said hid wisna wirkan right - the colours shouldna on page 25
in horror. "Whit's this tae a wirkan man?" on page 31
A Day in the Life o a Wirkan Man on page 64

4 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
boot a uncan wey o spaekan, o wirkan, on page 8
fer a simmer wirkan at senior manajment. on page 19
Øyvind Astridsfaither, wirkan on page 27
he wheel. "Thoo're thinkan Am wirkan the bott an the crew ower hai on page 68
n aa wir needan tae bide. Wir wirkan while we can." Quiet, but hai on page 70
Also on pages 116
6 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
an aye-bidan fankle fir fock wirkan in minority languages, especi
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
's a responsiebility fir them wirkan i Scots tae uiss the leids im
1 matches

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