A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whelks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 7.2 0 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1614 0 1 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of whelks in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
SAMMY'S BAG OF WHELKS on page 1
'Da, ah've bought us some whelks,' ah say, walking intae the l on page 2
man, must've been they fuckin whelks, That's wit ah get fur tryin on page 3
food poisoning fae some dodgy whelks an if ah ever see the cunt th on page 4

13 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
o the Thames, sooking whelks, on page 12

1 matches

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@helenmoncrieff Girny Whelks! yins very good. Hid's so rel(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
late friend called dem 'Girny whelks' because of da look o a gummy(2020) search twitter