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The word 'waander'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
waanderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of waander in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
Gangs o young folk wid waander fae wan hoose tae anither and
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ta win oot o yon dark haal an waander aroond among dat bricht flooe on page 11

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
dat hard wirkin fokk ahint I waander up ower tawards Da Tunnel. Da on page 92

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
been dat fine I joost hed tae waander up ower tae hae a look at wir
œHit’s aa richt for him tae waander ower da hills, he doesna hae
2 matches

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