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Use in varieties of Scots

whins Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.1 4.5 9.9 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences126 3 1 0 0 2
Number of authors11 5 3 1 2

Occurrences of whins 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

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
through brambles and through whins: They'll scart him sair, I'll on page 15

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
, and efter a while, when the whins grew awfie jaggy on baith sid on page 108
the flair o the Forest _--aw whins and ferns and heather - but on page 163

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ees, naething but wind-thrawn whins waffing runkelt shanks abuin
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A'll hide awa among the whins
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Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
fae the blimmin o the yellae whins on the braes tae the broun ha
1 matches

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Tales Fae The Doric Side - Kelpie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Through whins an stuntit birse he scirt on page 11

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
kinnle the whins at the boddom o the pile. He
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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ist coorie intil neuks in the whins an disappear. #dubbydingo htt (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
wife makkan watter, ahint the whins - on page 63

1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An tha heather an whins an gowans soomin on page 53

1 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
goat ait watched fra oot tha whins on page 46

1 matches

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