A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wirse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wirseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.864
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 wirse 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

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
lation o his, things his goat wirse in the faerie warld, especial on page 84

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n tull the denner he wis rale wirse the weer fir drink, an Winnie on page 17
ae lickin yer knife, or aiven wirse - yer plate. Nae snuffin, na on page 53

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
leukin doon the list. "An the wirse they leuk, the bigger the pri on page 30

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Fur better or wirse, Jenny thocht noo wis the tim
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@alfordbrad Michty. Nithin wirse that yon wattery teeth. ?? ??(2019)

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