A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wistful Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 1.5 0 0 0 7.7
Number of occurrences41 1 0 0 0 2
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of wistful in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Venus, Mars - and wistful fields abuin the laund on page 7

1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
aid. Jane shook her heid an a wistful look came intae her een. She
1 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Wi wistful glance ye naw lak back on page 17
Yin A watch wi wistful dreym on page 32

2 matches

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