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The word 'wirm'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wirmOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.12013
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 5
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 3
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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)
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 wirm 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.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
k: "hit's usually a frug or a wirm. Da question is, whit did da on page 26

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
a troot lyin dere, lower your wirm in peerie wyes. Gently ... an on page 9

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
alangside da maet - da wirm on page 111

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
a hale lock o hit in wan lang wirm. ‘Maybe dat’ll brichten u
1 matches

Sandison, Iris Da Tree Peerie Grice, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, weans
t da best bits, fur I tink da wirm is been itae hit".
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Froggy smoorikins, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
aser suddenly jamp tae grab a wirm wi his lang sticky tongue. Da
s lang sticky tongue. Da poor wirm wis glaepit in a wanner.
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
roon wir hairts like a hairy wirm," observed the Maan o the Hoo on page 63

1 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
on Baabie's hert like a hairy wirm and her feet performed steps on page 94

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ned. "The early bird gits the wirm, bit it's the second moosie a on page 7

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
d roon yer hairt like a hairy wirm, sonorous, an rich, an roon.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ail hingin oot like a wummily wirm, an chawed his wye oat at the
nno a rowth o fooshty kail an wirm-etten neeps, tattie parins, a
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - The Cricket An The Eemock, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, poetry
Nae flee nor wirm laid by in girnel
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
he liggit an thratched lik a wirm on a heuk.
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
maist times it's a frog, or a wirm. Question is, whit did the ai on page 26

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Whilk needles, wirm-like, throu the thochts o man on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
he haill lot o it in yin lang wirm. 'Mibbe yon will brichten up on page 20
'Ye're a sweir and thrawn wee wirm, and ye're growin ower fast.' on page 36

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
The double helix, ilka mauk-wirm kent on page 35

1 matches

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