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Use in varieties of Scots

wirt Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 0 0 0 156.9 0 0
Number of occurrences270 0 0 27 0 0
Number of authors8 8

Occurrences of wirt in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
m iddir wy a'rekknin up lyf's wirt, on page 13

1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
o makkin a daisy chain wid be wirt da budder o risin an pluckin on page 7
an says he's dat ösfil, he's wirt a hunder pound! He says he ki on page 23
a time yalkin for whit he wis wirt, an juist as haerse as da cra on page 42
Caterpillar, as if shö wisna wirt spaekin aboot. "Wha's du?" on page 46
nk o his head as if hit wisna wirt his while ta look at her. "I on page 71
Also on pages 85
7 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
pared wi him dey wirna muckle wirt. Ee day, an scunnered wi Jose on page 13
- hirplin aboot an no muckle wirt. So David took peety apo him on page 24
dat idders hadd oot fir ir no wirt onything. on page 41
poo her oot? Surely a body is wirt mair dan a yowe. So dan, da L on page 101
wld, an hirplin, an no muckle wirt ~ fock dat canna aks you back on page 119
Also on pages 120
6 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
wark a da deevil. Shü widna wirt let dem gying ta da local hal on page 4
Respect! What wis dat wirt! I tocht noo aboot my life a on page 46
k whin dey cam aald an little wirt. An whin shü cam pregnant an on page 77
fins him uncan, bit it'll be wirt persevering noo." on page 78
hatched in aerly July. It wis wirt it though, whin I lookit oot on page 92

5 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Hit's wirt mindin at dis study is baesse on page 19
Hit's wirt mindin firbye at languagedom on page 20
on): wanwirt 'trifle' (wan- + wirt) on page 43

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
whit books wis wirt a read: on page 25
is little wirt. An wi da mark o Cain on page 92
ugh ithoot hit we'd be little wirt. on page 108

3 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
up, so I gie dem der money's wirt. 'Du tinks du's fast? Watch d
1 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
s feet lik an animal o little wirt, an started tae oag aroond. H
1 matches

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