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The word 'wher'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.861
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 83.4 6 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 wher in Corpus

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South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
"Yez ur talkin pure mince. Wher wis this?"
distance cried Craigallian, wher Mr Gobbs hud gote nabbed poac
drove aff. Ee'd drapped us wher ther wis a wee well on the ot
rowned wae firs, anen stoaped wher the mountains
rge then follaed the burn tae wher it fell frae the
5 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 3, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
, landin exackly oan the spot wher Sister Josephine hud been sta
1 matches

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