A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'welly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wellyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.654
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
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 welly in Corpus

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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ye didnae gie that yin enough welly Tam.’ Noo it should be said
OW FINE, IT DIDNAE HUV ENOUGH WELLY, COYLE YA FUCKIN WIND UP MERC
2 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
lang, puffy, purple coat and welly boots. They are walkin too fa on page 59

1 matches

Briggs, Susi Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
n a big slug in the tae o his welly. on page 4

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
welly an 'at wis it. Next ee wis ha
1 matches

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