Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wei'

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Use in varieties of Scots

wei	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	25.3	81	6
ORK - Orkney	29.8	3	1
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	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	10.9	2	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)	935.8	75	3
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 wei 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.

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
n hid’s that mukl aesyir at wei , fir tae be konshis o the swe
m afens been konfyeusd bi the wei poiïts tak aboot “findan y
hid as a ferlee disipleenaree wei tae merk oot an infors beelon
3 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
“Wei -ll,” replyed the Mouss, “
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Frae Wang Wei on page 23
Frae Wang Wei on page 44

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
an when Ahlice hed bin aw th wei doon yin side an up t'ither, on page 10
ur eet, she funnd she hed nae wei tae reach eet: she could say on page 13
fty under th door: sae either wei Ah'll get intae th gairden, a on page 14
erhaps they wunnae saunter th wei Ah want tae gaun! Let iz sei. on page 15
r inches deep an reachin hauf wei doon th hall. on page 16
Also on pages 20, 21, 23, 26, 32, 33, 35, 39, 40, 41, 51, 56, 60, 61, 62, 63, 70, 72, 75, 81, 82, 84, 89, 93, 98, 101, 104, 107, 111, 113, 116, 123
46 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
14. Hieland Gloamin: Wang Wei (701-761)
of Wang Wei (701-761)
2 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ill, at wis seetiatit, i whit wei ca’d, the Hoscote Ludge Wud
whan a wur ae teenager. Wei teuk or motor tae the Howpasl
it Passendale. Ae tyme, whan wei
ae tryst i the hoose, it whit wei nou ca Auld Wolf, whilk ligs
ur the len o ae torch; wheech wei
27 matches