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The word 'workit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
workitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82212
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 workit in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
yin pyokes o sweeties for she workit in the shop An socht her up t on page 15

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
’d been shown till. Beannie workit at the fire: she turned the s
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
al thing. An Christ it fairly workit for a while until I ate so mu
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@DoricPhrases I kint fowk at workit at Tommy Tait's in Inverurie.(2019)
it a rare idea. Yiv obviously workit in fashion afore.(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
Ah widna teen ye for een that workit in a quarry, though. Nae wi s on page 43

2 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
work there, ye workit at the mill, doon by the Don. on page 15
ither left the railwye, an he workit in a factory, cleanin. He gae on page 17
n the tracks. Bit the fouk at workit in the oil got pyed mair for on page 18

6 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
'Gloag got sae workit up he set his alsatian on Cya on page 118

1 matches

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
ace at playtime. Maistly that workit fine but noo an en I'd forget
1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
he professed tae takin hisnae workit.(2020)

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
Ma ploy awmaist workit bit Ah hearit the taxi afore on page 81

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
o Creel Katie, that had lang workit as a fishwife in the docks, s on page 94

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
n. Some o the fermers that he workit til warnt him that there wis
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth In defence o SNHS, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
‘Spik as ye fin’ has ay workit weel fir me so in the interes
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ee bit her aulder lassies wha workit in service could send hame ta
mither, still a young lassie, workit for a dairy. Forby gaun oot o
2 matches

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