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The word 'wardle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wardleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6125
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 wardle in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
pril - aats the lowse i' the wardle ma loons an quines!(2016)
se mind me if England won the Wardle Cup an in whilk year it wis i(2018)
ging tae the cinema tae see a Wardle War Twaa film an the staff fa(2019)
o toon - aats the end of the wardle fowks!! #peterhead(2020)
the Gordon Highlanders during Wardle War Twaa an wis captured bi t(2020)

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
men; an the waefu state o the wardle. But the wardle bein e wye it on page 88

2 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
mair o fit's gyaan on in the wardle nor gin ye war a bud!" on page 28
t's gettin played aa ower the wardle - gin iss is the wardle avaa on page 32

3 matches

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
There isnae a pairt o the wardle that doesnae hae its ain muis on page 56

1 matches

General Central

Cameron, Peter Lallans 73 - The Stranger, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
words ayont the wardle's end on page 60

1 matches

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