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The word 'wrangs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wrangsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of wrangs in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
n my mind dir is nae rights n wrangs wi mixin dialect and English (2018)

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
e ye, dinna conter e chiel fa wrangs ye. Gin a chiel strick ye on on page 12

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
wrangs o Missus chatterbox's great g
1 matches

West Central

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
the people, o the richts and wrangs o whit yi propose. Mak fairme
1 matches

Edinburgh

Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
feelin, o the strangehold the wrangs ah wis taucht still carry. Un
still carry. Unlearnin those wrangs taks time an effort - but ah
2 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
Fitba Karma tae mak richt the wrangs o the League Cup Final! In th on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
For the wrangs he's suffered, on page 19

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s haes set doon the richts an wrangs – or at least naebody that
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Turn't oot tae richt some wrangs, an on page 1

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Wrangs aye in mine. on page 5
Tha wrangs at brocht aboot sitch hate, on page 55

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
aither wull no forgie you tha wrangs yous hae daen. on page 7

1 matches

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