A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'weh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wehOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.4274
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 254.9 24 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 weh in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
eit this aim tyme, "No far ar weh?" Baggy replyed en a panniked on page 47

1 matches

(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
Dah language weh yuh proud a,
Weh yuh honour an respec –
2 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
that huv helped me alang thi weh in order ti rite this book an on page i
But any weh, let me slur yir speech, on page 1
this is thi weh eh wiz taught on page 2
el hid a weh o talkin we eis on page 3
eh wid go oot meh weh on page 21
Also on pages 47, 52, 56, 57, 62, 73, 74, 80, 84, 89, 96, 108, 110, 115
23 matches

Robertson, Gary A Wee Dundee Xmas Poem, (Lidl 2020) Central, poetry
tih oor city an the Dundonian weh o celebratin the festive seas
1 matches

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