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Use in varieties of Scots

wurse Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 3.6 13.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences167 9 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of wurse in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
ak yer taes tae het, cauld or wurse, muith on page 41

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
fuck - eh've done wurse. on page 20
Wurse ti cum, got set up an thi hoo on page 63
an em nae wurse aff fir wear. on page 72
yi kid say that em a wee but wurse fir wear. on page 104
eh think thi talk wurse ower in Fife on page 115

5 matches

Mc Rae, Thomas The Neep Lantern, (Lowdown-L 2009) Central - Central, prose
rae her. The wind blew a loat wurse uz we ganged up tae ’er doo
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
weis approtchen, fit maid eit wurse, Baggv's granda weis on cih p on page 10
hairber, an tae mak maitter's wurse, thi tyde weis gan baak, so t on page 12
er, bit thi Charm weis a beit wurse fur thi weer aifter aat an le on page 13
, Et a widda maid thi problem wurse. Aifter Ronalt hid explained on page 18
n deen," "An tae mak theing's wurse," hee say's tae me, "Wer trap on page 27
Also on pages 32, 34, 47, 49
9 matches

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