A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'worsit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
worsitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6122
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 36 11 1
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 worsit in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Imagean a broon, checked worsit cot, on page 101

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hauns oot an haud this hank o worsit till I wyve the oo inno a baa
ay hodgin aboot an drappin ma worsit'.
ther set aff again wippin the worsit roon an roon the baa an picki
n faister wi the wippin o the worsit, an the tellin o the tale:
thon, Minnie near drappit the worsit aathegither wi excitement.
9 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
y Ann hid a dall, a cooker, a worsit Teddy wi blue troosers, an a
ace an quate, while she wyved worsit ganzits an
2 matches

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