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Use in varieties of Scots

wirms Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 2 9 0 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences134 6 0 3 0 0
Number of authors10 4 3 3

Occurrences of wirms in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
ole. 'Braw,' she said again. "Wirms and snails and creepy clocker on page 7

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Wull summon til ye flockin wirms, on page 35

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Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Anlie food for wirms! on page 35

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Kirk Jn, Albert The Wit o Solomon, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
ye get yersel twa wirms.
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Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
y, aa equal noo, bi Goad, cos wirms divna aet à la carte. on page 40

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Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
for a bountifae hairst o fat wirms; a bourach o spurgies were ch on page 53

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Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
rauchin, wheelin an divin fir wirms es he plooed the grun like br on page 89

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Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hungry. Ma says they maun hae wirms.'
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
fa scrattit his head till the wirms fell oot, bit cudna think o a
en wi an auld daud o wid, fur wirms. Horny-gollachs war careerin
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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ok, an dan hedd dem dellin up wirms fur bait, so he cood tak dem on page 9

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Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
e we fan oot da noodles wirna wirms we took a chance on da rest a
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@shaetlan_rose tweeted
t. I mind we caa'd de drooned wirms in puddles dat at de schöl, (2020) search twitter

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