A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wyse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wyseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
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 8 6 3
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 wyse in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
sic things fae e lairnt an e wyse, makkin it clear till e simpl on page 98
ishonest grieve for ackin sae wyse, cause e warldly-wise are bet on page 108

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
nny, she spent the gowd maist wyse-like an lived cantie iver eft
1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
is exchanged han's wi us both wyse Struggled sometimes for a fil on page 29

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Sae wyse an ootwart, govin throu the r on page 101

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
Prag thair wonned ane karling wyse on page 37

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
nae coorses ava (this wis tae wyse awa ae year forbye the lairni(2020)
fast tae Burghead(ery) virus-wyse an the wyseheid o the FM mich(2020)
@TriciaMarwick Wyse wirds frae ae wyse wumman.(2020)

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