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The word 'wept'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
weptOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
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 wept in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
o a kerless welder, hid wept on page 12

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
s, their faces grim an ashen, Wept in despair! on page 30

1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
wir aw that happy! Ma mither wept fur joy. on page 76

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
witnessed that it blinkit an wept. on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Wept by dyin Gods, we war campt in on page 11
Tae spill ae solitary tear wept at last upon the earth, on page 55

2 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Thae wha ower treisurs wept (Watters ower stanes) on page 38

1 matches

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