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The word 'wacky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wackyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 wacky in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
As good as I can be in these wacky times ?????. Nice tae see an (2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Cause it's not lik wur wacky baccy smokin bams on page 118
vrubdy says probly smokes the wacky baccy hersel - she wis lik t on page 125
e the penguins daein thir wee wacky walk, an wan ae Chris tryin t on page 164

3 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
er wi’ Scooby Doo an’ the Wacky Races an’ she thocht that T
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
ards. Ye'd huv tae be oan the wacky backy, as Mammy says, tae loo on page 7

2 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ly exist onie mair, while the Wacky Racists scooped nae fewer nor
1 matches

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