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The word 'weigh'
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Use in varieties of Scots weigh Occurrences normalised per million words Occurrences Authors
Dialect map - Usage over time
Total Corpus 3.4 11 11 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
3.3
1
1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
23.7
2
2
DOR - General Northern
4.4
1
1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
6.3
1
1
GLA - Glasgow
10.9
2
2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
1.3
1
1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
13.9
1
1
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 weigh 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
Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales , (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
Mind whin you go tae weigh them up, be sure an close the on page 82
1 matches
Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days , (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
care I aboot extra inches? I weigh eighteen stone, mibbe more, on page 31
1 matches
Mid Northern A
Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart , (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
little as there wiz seemed to weigh a ton as she trudged tae an u
1 matches
Aberdeen
Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared , (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
an if sae, tries to weigh up, on page 60
1 matches
Strachan, Shane Standing Stone , (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
ly the chain – it’ll help weigh doon this packed toolbox I’
1 matches
General Northern
Whyte, Brian The Bottles , (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Starts tae weigh ye doon on page 120
1 matches
Edinburgh
McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
wis haudan tae the Weigh Hoose waa, the zed on page 112
1 matches
Glasgow
Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One) , (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
fuckin fat cunt. Much dae you weigh fur fuck sake?’ ah sais, st
1 matches
Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona , (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ah will. Gie me a chance tae weigh it aw up.”
1 matches
General Central
Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince , (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
brithers has he? Whit dis he weigh ? Whitna siller dis his faithe on page 19
1 matches
South West (Galloway)
Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh , (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
e be up to 10kg. A happen tae weigh a lot mare than 10kg (mind ye
1 matches