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The word 'whiskey'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whiskeyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3177
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 31 7 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
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) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whiskey in Corpus

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Orkney

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
ae burns nicht fer the scotch whiskey society an the snp an nou ma (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
Pished...wi Whiskey in the jar oan...yeejaw...hap (2022) twitter link

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
tried ma best tae lay aff the whiskey & stuck tae brandy but made n(2016)
t coal. Need tae keep aff the whiskey(2016)
ne & half way though a bottle whiskey. Nae in 1 night!(2017)
ure the Queens flask hid mare whiskey in it than mine(2017)
I caint yon new whiskey that the heed barmaid his tac(2018)
and 2 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
says. Aw bright eyed and wae whiskey drippin doon his weasel like on page 183

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
t death. Ah’m no normally a whiskey drinker, eh? Oan accoont the
the ever decreasin boattle ae whiskey. Ah casually pour massel a to
e through another moothful ae whiskey.
a four hunner quid boattle ae whiskey sittin there. She broat that
4 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
- naw, twa - guid bottles o whiskey, and ye wur desperate enough
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
er ain breed. An made her ain whiskey tae. These wus baith activiti on page 46

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Aye weel-kent fur her whiskey - an early on page 1

1 matches

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