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The word 'whaes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whaesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.3279
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 22.8 9 2
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 99.8 8 3
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 whaes in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
be a sair fykie tae airt oot whaes 'Granny' it wiz an wi theem s on page 78

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e - laddies a legend n guess whaes been there - got (2020) twitter link
@Brian_Pacey @EastScotlandFA whaes the fanny - strait tae the p (2020) twitter link
huftie at the cctv tho - n c whaes been slipped intae the game o (2020) twitter link
worse than that - crap - n whaes the plonker that signed him f (2020) twitter link
tic guid fotae brother - bit whaes the cheeky wee fecker wae the (2021) twitter link
and 3 other occurrences.

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Likesay, the Greens, whaes biggest plus wis, on page 211

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
And thaim whaes forecasts wance seemed sound, on page 45
The Greenock boy whaes broad guttural brogue on page 61
Whaes Druids ritually curst thair R on page 85

4 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ease! 'William the Conqueror, whaes cause wis favoured by the Pop on page 25

1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
gie hersel to Him, whaes true name on page 44

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
stem; a true 'lad o' pairts', whaes ain self-readin an self-educa on page 132
, Ah'm thinkin, that the fowk whaes lives he celebratit an immort on page 133

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
e mind! 'Wilham th Conqueror, whaes cause was favoured b' th pope on page 25
bin th whitin," said Ahlice, whaes heid was still fu o th song, on page 101

2 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
the local Joiner, Wull Scott, whaes faither wis aye kent (accordi
, whae marriet ae John Rettie whaes surviving bairns ir
Embro, whaes forfock, Rutherford bi name,
e Wulson’s yingest callant, whaes rael naem wis Eric. It wisnae
4 matches

@cammyrudkin tweeted
@BobbyRobson46 whaes aw gan(2012)
lla7 @hornet_2011 al b up sin whaes aw ther(2012)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
urs or whys or eftirwards but whaes. on page 41

1 matches

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