A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whess Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0 0 39.7 0 0 0
Number of occurrences40 0 4 0 0 0
Number of authors3 3

Occurrences of whess in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gallows Ha - Dance tae the End, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Is they whirl an they whess an swaet through thir claes, on page 27

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid dozed and whess'd and shuddered, till I fair on page 12

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Is they whirl an they whess an swaet through thir claes on page 152

1 matches

Harris, Jane Me Laand, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Ur a last dugged whess
1 matches

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