A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whistling Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences73 4 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 3

Occurrences of whistling in Corpus

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Central

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
windbag went n fucking burst, whistling madly through split seams, bu
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e redgrass, passing scattered whistling thorn, strangle fig and the o
1 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ah breathing became even. Th' whistling o' th' win` became a repetiti
1 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
oric phrase Fusslin fit means Whistling. http://t.co/EJWIaz1gV4(2015) search twitter
ic fur #whistle is Fussle and whistling is Fusslin. https://t.co/05tU(2018) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
just noo! Yon bloody annoying whistling! New John West No Drain Ad 20(2019) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ttire, The brawest ‘mang the whistling choir, That, ere the sun can (2020) twitter link