A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wuz Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words25.3 15.9 0 0 0 0 201
Number of occurrences8432 0 0 0 0 52
Number of authors10 6 4

Occurrences of wuz in Corpus

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Central

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
Whaur Joes Field wuz, the yin that hud donkeys, no on page 47
yince wuz edged bi a burn, an the sun s on page 48
A real fozent wench she wuz, on page 53
Yince all wuz metre, rythmn, sense o soun on page 54

6 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
The phone wuz in the hung-up coat on page 100
It wuz a sair fecht, Albrecht, on page 106

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
Fionza wuz there, tae on page 38

1 matches

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
p o` thi huhlltoon Ma”- who wuz it that said yon yi ask? Och,
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
A’d say luck, the bad kind, wuz the main reason We didny win (2019) search twitter
carrying handles wance when A wuz a Boy, cause there wuz 2 of U(2020) search twitter
@cfcuk1878 @_an86_ @ClydeFC Wuz that no Cowdenbeath???Cause A(2019) search twitter
????????. Sooo, it follows it wuz 45 years ago A wuz escorted, (2019) search twitter
part from that, eh! , Ach! It wuz a wee drink Ma Maw used to le(2020) search twitter
and 10 other occurrences.

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
ttles ahint the shed, that ye wuz tellin us aboot.(2018) search twitter

Ulster

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
itch Cretaceous Men Jinkin Ah wuz pished last nicht. Tha day ma on page 30
Garryduff whar he wuz laid; on page 59

11 matches

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Wuz skeenklin gless, clear an sha on page 4
He wuz, strechtin hissel in the bink on page 6
The worl wuz blak an quait thon nicht, on page 9
It wuz aye the best time: the ithers on page 10
Whutiver it wuz. on page 16
Also on pages 18, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 40, 48, 49, 53, 54
31 matches

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
e merry hir if the sovereigns wuz hingin frae hir" rather the s on page 33

1 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
rn. (Weetchils’ ca’in: he wuz whut he wuz.) The furst stree
whut he wuz.) The furst streetch o the la
ts ain accoard maistly. An it wuz nixt the bank-fiel, tae, whar
the brig whun the lint-watter wuz lut aff — near nicht, maist
e bocht sparklin spaicial (it wuz the wartim) an sweeties (whun
6 matches

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
nes Polis, askin where aboots wuz tha white powdir stuff?????? (2021) twitter link
abybropatto @raiphsays Aye he wuz Toht, ah cudnea fin ah gif o (2021) search twitter
st @BBCScotLearn Oh ah wish a wuz??????!!! (2021) twitter link

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