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The word 'weengs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
weengsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5158
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 4
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 weengs in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
Wi flappan weengs, an stridan legs, sheu teuk a on page 97

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
ids face is frozen. Hids reid weengs dunder. An Light maks reefu p on page 59

1 matches

North East Central

Valentine, Lynn Lallans 104 - Luve Sang o thi Har and New Year Neebors, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
A stur tae thi stramash o weengs at thi windae, thi kettle's c on page 29

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
The warriour arise wi shaidae weengs. on page 37
Passes a slaw beat o weengs; on page 39

3 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Autumn spreids gowd weengs an on page 8
Then spreids its soondless weengs oot, an descends. on page 24
Whase weengs ah cowed. The sky is lood - on page 48

3 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ne they wad vainish intae the weengs. Efter them wad come the leer on page 58

1 matches

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 104 - The Wild Burrds Shaw, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
~ Jist a shiverin o captured weengs. on page 75

2 matches

Swan, Michael Lallans 102 - Mebbi Ah Spak Owre Suin, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
'Snt Pete sairvises' oan his weengs. Nae wird o walcom, jist "Nem on page 96

3 matches

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