whaups | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
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Occurences normalised per million words | 6.8 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 29.8 | 17.4 | 10.9 | 0 | |
Number of occurrences | 21 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
Number of authors | 11 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
larm cries o a wheen faur-aff whaups cairrit on the southerly bree on page 50
esweeps divin ower the holms, whaups tirlin on the hill an the sic on page 55
ere skeely at spyin whaur the whaups an wild deuks nestit, an wad on page 74
cries o lambs in the park an whaups on the moss wis drount oot by on page 80
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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
"By, ye've been oot amang the whaups the day, son" Doon thoner awb on page 7
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Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
aff tirlin cry o a whaup. The whaups were back. Spring wis here - on page 17
3 matches
Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
The heat whaups ye the minute ye set fit oot
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A fair wheen o whaups seem to thrive here - a floc (2019) twitter link
Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Hauntan soond o distant whaups on page 34
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Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
the fields in the springtime. Whaups’ nests and shalders’ nest
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