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The word 'awhile'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
awhileOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.8 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 awhile in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
r an hame. Here, she dauchled awhile, tae catch her braith, fur he
ister's heid an daunced there awhile ahin her sleepin ee till the
2 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
His exile he'll suspend awhile If it's aa richt wiher, on page 9

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
big man bit a fear it cood b awhile lol (2021) twitter link
eFC @Fauldhouseutd1 its taken awhile - but good luck to the hoose (2021) twitter link
- the 3g at pinkie was done awhile a go too - probably the same (2020) twitter link
no seen a raker like that fir awhile lol (2020) twitter link

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
aboot. ? Be the packwolf for awhile it might make ye smile ??(2020)
dy thought about this one fer awhile ? it was good though.(2020)
ierd but we passed that stage awhile ago.(2020)
s bud no heard that one fer a awhile ??(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
But stand awhile on Pirndean on page 47
Says I "come up awhile and stay on page 22

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
it's grand tae stey awhile and blether.' on page 7

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
tae dream awhile, on page 61

1 matches

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