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The word 'whale'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whaleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.73117
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee 85 8 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whale in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
oot as much use as a stranded whale! The on page 13

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wi' a deep whale blue sea on page 16

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
lipwhale @dedalusdenaries Fin Whale, right jaw(2020)

Shetland

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
fery year I see a neesik un a whale,
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
est chance o spottin a killer whale let alone seein one ?????????(2016)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
tull his front like a beached whale. "Turn over...please, lady." on page 12

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ical trainin raise up, like a whale frae the deep. He'd anely gae
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
tae resemmle the skeleton o a whale that is the biggest exhibitio on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
an orgasm tae a fuckin killer whale so it could." on page 65

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ist hinking, whit a facer the whale hing wis.
e drink? Of course I ken that whale three hunner years hing’s a
e/Big Eck debate. He kens the whale independence question hing is
we dae even. It’s been his whale life’s goal after all. We m
4 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
development o petrochemicals, whale oil wis uised across a haill on page 36
muckle stove that was fed wi whale an seal blubber. This meant t on page 37
harpooner in the bow. Aince a whale had been spottit fae the craw on page 40
k tae the ship pouin the deid whale tae begin strippin the baist on page 41
lane, frostbitten in an open whale boat in the Arctic Circle. on page 42

8 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
me an ma son tan aboot three whale (biodegradable) bin bags ae s (2020) twitter link
me an ma son tan aboot three whale (biodegradable) bin bags ae s (2020) twitter link

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
run spoutin bluid lik a deein whale. on page 14

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
he dancin even mair. We huv a whale o a time, talkin and eatin sh on page 26

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
it, yer guan tae jail, with a whale - and whales can eat you’. (2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
he gey rare @mackieHT and her whale team, ane an a) ahind the sce(2020)
ould start a trend an hae the whale warld or the whale o Aiberdee(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
It harpooned a whale
1 matches

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