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The word 'waurna'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
waurnaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1102
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 1
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 2.7 2 1
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 waurna in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
'Peety they waurna aye sae quate, the vratchies,
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ther, fowk like the Andersons waurna gien the age-reversal serum.
ed them aff fin their parents waurna luikin. There wis a hoose nea
"Bit shairly they waurna the anely ten year auld bairn
s certain shair that bird-men waurna onythin new. Faith, there war
iel warned her weel that they waurna fur sale, an that she'd dae b
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
” quo Jeannie. “An fin ye waurna oot tae feed yer birdies. I k
1 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
the toy breets insteid. They waurna as gweed tae play wi as real
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
un, an wunnerit whit wey thae waurna heidin straucht tae the Isle. on page 14

2 matches

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