Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'wan-'

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Use in varieties of Scots

wan-	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	0.6	2	1
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
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 wan- 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
e's notheen more annoyan than wan-sided conversation. on page 80

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
this malignant sid: wan-time resident o the former bul on page 7

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
ic dropped fae a glacier. The wan-off Egoista taks pride o place
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
y devoted ta dem, but hit's a wan-wye traffic, June didna even c on page 44

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
wan-sided conversations. on page 109

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
An when A grow up, A'll write wan-but A'm grown up noo," she add on page 34

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
he yin. Bill's goat the ither wan-Bill! Bring it aer here, son!- on page 38

1 matches

General Central

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
stridin the hills, a wan-man band, on page 22

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
the wan-o-clock gun. on page 18

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
defiance agin nairrae-nebbit, wan-leidit, class-drookit snobbery on page 4

1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
and it wis like, aye, Rovers, wan-nil, nae bother.
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
@donna_gallers It's a wan-aff. Ye'd be the envy o aa yer(2020)