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The word 'weesht'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
weeshtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4117
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 weesht in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
aff, he garrt them haud their weesht, cause they kent he wis Chris on page 86
agin an telt him tae haud his weesht, bit he jist roart aa e mair, on page 111
tell ye, gin they haud their weesht, e verra steens wad cry oot." on page 112
a e fowk, sae they held their weesht an were dumfoonert b; his ans on page 114

4 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
elieve we didnae hiv haud yer weesht in the database mony thanks t(2014)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ah weesht fir on page 127

1 matches

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
"Weesht, it's jist me, Emma."
1 matches

General Central

@ionafyfe tweeted
ol @billykayscot @OorVyce Och weesht, I’m glowin reid.(2020)
@DrNeilKirk @Lenniesaurus Weesht. I blame the aipple juice.(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Ah weesht that we wur thaim. on page 53

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
grew up kennin whit it meant, weesht Ah'd seen yer post afore(2020)

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