Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

wen	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.7	19	6
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
WCE - West Central	17.8	4	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	15.4	3	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	13.1	10	2
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)	58.1	1	1
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)	18.2	1	1

Occurrences of wen in Corpus

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West Central

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
It says heer, said Avon, That wen thi shop ownur chaist thum th on page 41

4 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
pied wi mer important matters wen wae met. A wiz watchin yae. D
ucked intae gossip an hearsay wen idle. Av mer leisure time noo
2 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
s. We can sort anythin’ out wen wi put oor mind tae it, kint
1 matches

General Central

@raiphsays tweeted
@bmc875 A hud ten poun cash wen a came hame fae Germany in Ja(2020)
YCAMP261115 @MrMalky He he no wen a wis er! Bit a dinnae get af(2020)
e clear a path froo a midgies wen a wis in Stronmilchan! He he!(2020)
r sayin why the violence? Wen no a soul touch him wen he wi(2020)
a kno it seem a bit soon bit wen ye draw Aw yer stuff ye huv t(2020)
and 1 other occurrences.

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
n! Yes I know how lassies get wen we take oor claes aff! (2022) twitter link
bearturner Lavvyheid! An just wen ya thought ah coudnae get any (2022) twitter link
hen, lassies didnae do subtle wen ah was strippin! (2022) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Yarns 3 - Brae / Sheugh / Cannae / Piece, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, poetry
Wen dapest an strangest
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Wen weren on page 9

1 matches