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The word 'wudna'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wudnaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 5
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 wudna in Corpus

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General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
I wudna doll, yer bits might fa oot!(2012)

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tit tae see Raggle. Bit Guzul wudna lat her. “He disna wint tho
1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
I wudna sit by the sill till caunle f on page 55

1 matches

Swan, Michael Lallans 102 - Mebbi Ah Spak Owre Suin, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
e disconteenaed Purgatory, ye wudna bin here fer a wee while yet. on page 96

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
n in a fremmit leid? Na, that wudna be richt; his composeetions i on page 91

3 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
on tairm “Lallans”, but A wudna coont on it. They conteena, S
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
ur released. . 257 o us still wudna gie way

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
face the government. Hamilton wudna hear o it. Nor wud he accept

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