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The word 'quha'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
quhaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.2205
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 94.1 15 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of quha in Corpus

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Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
Quha can do better, sa furth, in G on page ix

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
is spickin tae aal thae fowk quha comes tae bathe in the river,
lik Dug People. We daena ken quha else you can be.”
ald People. Quhiles us wonner quha’s in cherge!”
r ma parents bide, there fowk quha’s licht-skinnt - some is e
babbies!” Tad continued. “Quha wints tae spick tae thair anc
14 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
ayis’, and thon o Portia ‘quha did devoir the fyrie brayiss/
fur exemple, quhais (whose); quha (who); and quhilk (which).
2 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
Gif James V war alyve, quha hearin ane o his subjectis kn(2020)

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