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The word 'wired'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wiredOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11714
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.1 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 7
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wired in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
s as far up in the air, she's wired te the meen. The only thing a on page 85

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(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
a guid laugh rocket but truly wired tae the moon. Mind you, that on page 7

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Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
never fed! The speed she got wired in at, a steam train couldna
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Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ns sae pure, sae intense, sae wired in tae ma nervous system, tha
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Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
So then she goat wired in, an verra soon hid the eak on page 15

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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
firmly believe it. ‘Ah’m wired man. Scanlon gied us some ay
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Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
roon shite man. They’re aw wired lookin, that waiy ye get when
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Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
'Jimmy, you really are wired tae the moon.'
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Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
, we manage tae get ten grand wired doon. The rest, he deposited
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General Central

MacGregor, Rose Lallans 102 - The Big C Roller Coaster, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Waur wired tae the tracks o yon radio ta on page 69

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Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
y, I'm shuir ma Da thinks I'm wired tae the muin. on page 13

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Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
id Mr Tod. 'And noo let's get wired in aboot this howkin.' on page 60

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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Fankle, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927459) Central, weans
n withoot sayin ony mair, she wired intae her Raiveletti. Efter s
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@ionafyfe tweeted
I love how wiv aa jist wired intae the drams post @OorVyce(2020)

@MartinBroon tweeted
@ClydeU21 Mon boys! Wired in 2nd half... ??. ??. ??????(2019)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Or buck eejit MacCassey, wired tae tha moon; on page 49

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