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The word 'wurse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wurseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5164
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 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 53.1 5 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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 wurse in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
weis approtchen, fit maid eit wurse, Baggv's granda weis on cih p on page 10
hairber, an tae mak maitter's wurse, thi tyde weis gan baak, so t on page 12
er, bit thi Charm weis a beit wurse fur thi weer aifter aat an le on page 13
, Et a widda maid thi problem wurse. Aifter Ronalt hid explained on page 18
n deen," "An tae mak theing's wurse," hee say's tae me, "Wer trap on page 27
Also on pages 32, 34, 47, 49
9 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
fuck - eh've done wurse. on page 20
Wurse ti cum, got set up an thi hoo on page 63
an em nae wurse aff fir wear. on page 72
yi kid say that em a wee but wurse fir wear. on page 104
eh think thi talk wurse ower in Fife on page 115

5 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
ak yer taes tae het, cauld or wurse, muith on page 41

1 matches

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