Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whim	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.5	3.6	1.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	8	7	1	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	7	6	1

Occurrences of whim 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.

Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
He'd be aff oan a whim, on page 11

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
life micht be in peril at the whim o this man's tid. The tick-ta on page 41
tenant whase life hung on the whim an mercy o some greedy laird, on page 48

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
wi technique (gin that's Thy whim): on page 62

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
e thocht, "He'll answer every whim
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e Pandit from his home on the whim of a disturbed - and soon to
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e be piecemeal, produced on a whim, aften taikenistic, an wi nae
1 matches

Doric

Wood, Evelyn Tales Fae The Doric Side - Carlo, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
r, we studied oor map an on a whim decided that we'd see if the on page 28

1 matches