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The word 'wernae'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wernaeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41313
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 wernae 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.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
water, an we aat thi waive's wernae sae steep. En speyt o eit bei on page 56

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
vernment has provit that they wernae in it jist tae dae a slap-das
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
It's fair tae say they wernae chuffed. on page 12

1 matches

West Central

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
boot wit happened. The others wernae the same either, and Livvy ha
1 matches

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
s to gie awa, so we obviously wernae owrewhummlt wi demand!
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
stoppit. An aince the warkers wernae needit, they were flung ontae on page 147

1 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
g him mad. Saying things that wernae true. We got intae the starti on page 39

1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Ye wernae listening, yer onto
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General Central

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
e dress him in the claes that wernae there. They played at buttoni on page 64

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astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
They wernae muckle trinkets left fyr the
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@jax6754 tweeted
sunshine tae.....so you defo wernae in Scotland?. So wonderin if (2015)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ass that folk thocht ye mibbe wernae sae bad, efter aa. You took a on page 81

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
o the Clampetts by fate. They wernae used tae indoor plumbin, it w on page 46

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