A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wirking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wirkingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 wirking in Corpus

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General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
tae be the upper ranks of the wirking cless no necessarily as an ex on page 9

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
steevest boolders i the wey o wirking-cless bairns wunnin tae Staun
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ers in profit. But acause the wirking fowk haed tae lippen on breid
Noo mony mair o the middle an wirking cless fowk – thaim that spa
2 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@hornet_2011 what oors u wirking now.yir hardly ever there #la(2012)