A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wirkins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wirkinsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 2
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 wirkins in Corpus

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West Central

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
hat ah am, includin the rusty wirkins o ma lang-lown tongue.
1 matches

General Central

gov.scot Biggin a strang future for Gaelic an Scots, (Scottish Government 2022) Central, government
it taks in tae the makkins an wirkins o the Bòrd Na Gàidhlig - t
1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
tae scance ower the mak up an wirkins o Bòrd na Gàidhlig (BnG), a
undin o Gaelic groups; on the wirkins o the Gaelic langage plans sy
ae effeck on the structure an wirkins o Bòrd na Gàidhlig but mais
n wirk oot whither or no thae wirkins thit hit wis stertit wi in 20
gie their thochts on the fine wirkins o the Bòrd na Gàidhlig func
5 matches

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