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The word 'whitin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whitinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.8255
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 38 7 1
AYR - Ayrshire 104.8 8 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 99.8 8 1
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 whitin in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
oxes we took dat day, an no a whitin among dem. Beuys I hoop you h
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
e kent it wisna a haddie or a whitin, a herrin or a mackerel an it
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
alk a wee bit faster?" said a whitin tae a snail. on page 99
Said he thanked the whitin kindly, bit he wonuddnuae joi on page 100
ot-d'ye know how it's cawed a whitin?" on page 101

7 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
a wee bit smerter?" said the whitin tae the snail. "There's a por on page 44

8 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
alk a wee bit faster?" said a whitin tae a snail. on page 99
Said hei thanked th whitin kindly, but hei wouldnae join on page 100
h never kent sae much aboot a whitin afore." on page 101

8 matches

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