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The word 'wikks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wikksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.1208
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 55.6 17 5
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 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 wikks 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

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
£100, 000, an gave them twa wikks tae stump up, or ging tae the on page 84

1 matches

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
An abroad for twa wikks ilka year on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
d a chill in the stable three wikks back, an much o the tcyauve o
n withoot Jock this lasy fyew wikks, at the big toun dairy tfar h
aye shook it aff. It's three wikks noo as ye ken, Jock, the mais
hers' teets. These last three wikks tho, she'd bin unca hard caad
Fin a twa, three wikks war by, life hid begun tae sa
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
k yonner we need a twa, three wikks taa makk a richt documentary
Twa wikks later, Neil Duguid lay in the
ng wad spenn her hinmaist twa wikks there afore settin aff on the
talie an Miss Vining thon twa wikks. The day that Miss Vining lef
Three wikks efter, fin Miss Vining wis ri
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
hid fresh watter fur wikks. The fleer o his cage wis lik
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Sorry nae tae be posting fur wikks ah hiv been ettlin tae conver(2015)
Scaffie collection ilky three wikks an sma’er scaffie buckets vo(2019)
ail is oot an ye’ve sax lang wikks tae keep the geets entertaine(2019)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
9883981 She'll be new. 3 mair wikks afo she comes hame(2020)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
hill. Here the day; in a few wikks' time up tae yer knees in dub on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
Ainly a fyow wikks til the big day un Ah hivna g
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
days is here. Fitin fine. Twa wikks tae come tae. ??(2020)