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The word 'wikk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wikkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.34911
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 143.9 44 8
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
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 wikk in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
Faur ae last wikk, jist aboot ivvery nicht, And on page 84

2 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Ilkka wikk for an oor roon the toon we w on page 15

5 matches

Shepherd, Robbie Harknin tae the braw souns, (John Benjamin 2000) Doric, newspaper
See ye neist wikk.
1 matches

Harper, Norman Stronach: A Weekly Look at Life in the Fictional North-East Village, (The Press and Journal 2000) Doric, newspaper
nd he's bidin wi me this next wikk, so surely I deserve tae ken
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
airish hid caad fur her fur a wikk. Dr Henderson hid examined th
ised. The ploo hid bin oot aa wikk on the parks o Steenhillock,
rst fit aa their friens fur a wikk an mair. Her man, Steenhilloc
d bin in an cleaned the lum a wikk syne. The New Year maun hae a
y hid fulled the ropes wi the wikk's wash, crossed her fingers t
8 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
fin the skweel hid skailed a wikk syne. Her Da hid fleen back t
"Did I miss onythin last wikk?" speired Nava.
"My Gran telt me it jist last wikk,' she lauched. 'Mynd, it mich
I fand twa tractor tyres last wikk," he cried. "Ower here! Ower
til the Transplant Ward neist wikk – efter a twa-three wee tes
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Aa that wikk Gurr an Scrat behaved thirsel
awa, that we spukk aboot last wikk.”
in an birrin as it washed the wikk’s fule claes, an
wikk lang, bairns frae the fairms
4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
in the Bloo Toon fur Scottish Wikk some great Doric phrases, say(2015)
This time neist wikk we ah'll aa be saying its aff(2016)
Yestreen, anely runs eence a wikk! https://t.co/zlXbgXznTP(2017)
risons tae celebrate Scottish wikk! https://t.co/IRrx2S7mcs(2017)
ist - a great stairt tae the wikk. https://t.co/82FZBh0Abg(2017)
and 6 other occurrences.

@FaeFoggie tweeted
awa sunnin masell somewye at wikk. Ats a point tho, I'll need a(2019)
e in the sooth o frunce fir a wikk. Jist wandered aboot listnin (2020)
ark ti @GerryinAberdeen neist wikk. He won it in a lucky spin fi(2020)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
for senior schuilbairns. This wikk is aa aboot traivelers: HH, c (2020) twitter link
ll be deein Scots ae lesson a wikk, in addition tae the senior c (2020) twitter link
Ess wikk - usin contemporary Scots la (2020) twitter link
deen fer World Book day neist wikk. Guid effort fae the bairns. (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
real breets, of coorse. Last wikk, Uncle Dod hid let him inno t
1 matches

General Northern

Philip, George Luikin Back, (Jas Gaesham 2008 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Doric, prose
s at hame wi diphtheria for a wikk afore I wis diagnosed. I myn on page 6

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
AUSE A'm flittin in twa three wikk's time, A haed tae phone the
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
a muckle bosie ony day o the wikk (gein the richt pairtner, ye (2020)
aince hid anw fir mair nor a wikk. Mine, they were meant tae ke(2020)