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wrate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words14.5 22.7 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences4745 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors14 12 1 1

Occurrences of wrate in Corpus

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Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
r. For a lang time, A wrangly wrate 'having a nanny rooney' whan, on page 49

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Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
ots Tung" Maister Murison als wrate o the deiffekwalties o modren on page 10
screivin a sae-lik deid tung, wrate thaim.We wared monie ours sif on page 11

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Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
He nivver wrate ir resaived a pistil, an nivv on page 6

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Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
e Scots hed Kildie preists at wrate doun thair histore, fur thair on page 47

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Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
Tittie an hir ying man wrate ilk ither dailie day. A hale on page 2
Thusgates Tittie wrate fur aw the lave o hir days. S on page 4
siccarlie agin it. Tittie nou wrate ti mak up fur hir nyow los, a on page 6
ilkane buik at shae hed ivver wrate, aw in ordour an nate-lik rei on page 8

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Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
oot ti him lang years syne an wrate a creitical review o it dedic on page 4

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
kers complenit Francis Brewis wrate back sayin "I appreciate that on page 121

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Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
screids. Allan Ramsay hissel wrate tae the Edinburgh toun coonci on page 15

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
The Christian monks that wrate the gospels whiles eikit the
ry of the Earth (1788) Hutton wrate “The result, therefore, of
e chitter the maist. Playfair wrate “The mind seemed to grow gi
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
likes o Mistress Gordon that wrate Flouers o the Forest an gentr
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Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
An heir that bit tretis Ah wrate on votin seestems (Ah gat an
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
, gin it raellie maitters wha wrate the warks. Thai ir amang the
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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
s tae a thocht the makars aye wrate like this (no that the'r ony
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Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
weel as they kent English, an wrate for fowk that kent as muckle
cots wis spak the wey Douglas wrate it. They gae aa greetie ower
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Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
the lift. Whatna leear maun a wrate that ane! But a guid bit fant
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Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
r antecestors, Scotland. Shae wrate me a hantil o pistils an the
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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
glintie o the database Janice wrate for her sey-piece, an filteri
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
Hilltoun o Dundee. In 1838 he wrate a buik cryed Celestial Scener
, wis that taen aback that he wrate the word ‘wow’ in rid ala
r AD 745 in Scotland, Wintoun wrate that:
eel-kent scholar Hector Boece wrate a Latin history o his hame ki
is syne eikit til whan Nisbet wrate a bittie mair anent his ain l
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Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
t night was incredible”, he wrate. “The air was electric. Peo
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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ist aboot aw thing Alex Scott wrate, laestweys creativelie. This
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
ither". He spake at length an wrate extensively in his innin o th
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Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
lliam Dunbar an Gavin Douglas wrate the maist weel-regairdit vers
. Componers sic as John Fethy wrate sangs that wis inspired by th
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
Ron Ferguson wrate in the Herald on 12 Mey that
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
hen I mentioned Frisian, fowk wrate doon for me the name o ane mu
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ane on the verandah. Then she wrate oot a list of messages for th
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Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Kirkcaldy wrate in Late Middle Scots (1550-17
-6. He wis a sang screivar an wrate Hey, Johnny Cope in 1745 that
er screivars fae aw the airts wrate hunners o thoosands (aiblins
3 matches

Doric

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
vid Attenborough nae lang ago wrate a post on Facebook, tae remin
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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
ey lot til Po Chu-i. He aince wrate til his lyfe-lang freind, Yü
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