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The word 'whather'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whatherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7154
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 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 251.1 8 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 70.3 5 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whather in Corpus

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General Central

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 59 - Auntie Aggie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
we wis gettin fur oor denner whather we lyked it or no. Whey cuid on page 118

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
kin hir feel dozy an glaikit) whather the pleasure o makin a daisy on page 7
furst," said shae, "an see whather it's markt 'poison' or naw'; on page 13
n what daes it metter tae mae whather yae'r a or a snake?" on page 53
already that yae cudnae tell whather the blows hurt it or naw. on page 59
Alice wus gye doubtful whather shae oucht tae lie doon or na on page 79
Also on pages 80, 85, 112
8 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
gears or the soon or veesion; whather it micht be soarted or wuz la on page 49

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Whather it wus, nuts nor baults nor s on page 11
Whather it be richt nor wrang. on page 22
Whather ye like it nor nae. on page 23
Whather ye came, on page 31
An cares naw whather oniebodie, on page 55

5 matches

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