Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'whare'

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Use in varieties of Scots

whare	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6.5	21	10
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	22.8	9	1
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)	25	2	1
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)	51.2	1	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	14.1	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whare in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn, (2020) twitter link

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
A didna ken whare ta leuk.A wusht A coud hae de
lang yon passages, fur A kent whare the draft wis gaun. A wis tai
whin A askit im whare e got it e widna say, or e sa
3 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
o Fife. "See, Airchie, that's whare yer parritch comes fae," says on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Big Schuil, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
sat doun aside this laddie. "Whare ye fae?" A'm sayin as the bus
"Kinchie? Whare 's that?"
he leuk he gien iz. "Kinchie. Whare the whisky comes fae, div ye
3 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
o Fife. "See, Airchie, that's whare yer parritch comes fae," says
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
or "gang", "ganged", "gangin" whare nouadays, espeecially in the
At length, says I, "Friend, whare ye gaun,
alang wi modren eediom like "whare " for "whaur", "gaun" for "gan
o", an the hippit copula in "Whare ye gaun?", the "go" uized as
4 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
text. Normally it's a ritual whare A tell 'um it's shit wi' suga
1 matches

Edinburgh

Capener, Jack No Guid Eneuch, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
in tae walcome Scots back ben whare it belangs: on the public sta
1 matches

Ayrshire

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 76 - Oan the Daith o John Law, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
Whare yin forgets that daith is sic
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
it the back o the big hoose, whare the claithes wur peggit oot t
daith; whare hei bade til hei deyd. A hae
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
An whyles ayont the human ee whare TV haes the mein
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Whare'er ye luk thair's ridin breek on page 21

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An tak pride in whare it haes come frae, on page 45

1 matches