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The word 'werr'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
werrOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.552
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 werr in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
, you're nearly sure ta be da werr o it, shöner or later. on page 13
table sam as afore, "an hit's werr as ever noo," da poor ting to on page 20
a change: an Alice wis a lock werr aff as afore, for da Mairch H on page 75
Keeng, "dat only maks things werr. Du most a meant some deevilm on page 120

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General Central

@raiphsays tweeted
Nevar too erly tae werr devil horns! :D(2020)