Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wheest'

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Use in varieties of Scots

wheest	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6	20	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	23.2	4	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	6.5	2	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.3	4	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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)	178.4	5	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	85.3	3	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wheest in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
nose nearly in da waater. “Wheest !” he whispered. “Dunna gl
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Hadd dy wheest boy,” said Meenie. “Or du
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
�A’m comin tae dat, hadd dy wheest !” Meenie telt him.
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Watt, Valerie Cheerio for eenoo . . ., (Shetland Times 2011) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
h awa so I’d better hadd my wheest for a start.
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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Wheest!" hissed Joyce. "Jist listen. on page 42

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Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Och, haud yer wheest. Ye'r es baad es Bill. Ah sai on page 19

1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
Wheest noo, listen tae me winderin' on page 10
Wheest noo, will ye jist listen tae on page 22
Ocht wheest, Ah'd better no spik like tha on page 28

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Och, jist leave it. Wheest! Here's the bairn noo. on page 69

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General Central

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
swanky court fowk held their wheest as the High Heid Yin led the on page 66

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South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
An heivens, ... haud yer wheest whyles!
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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
at dailygaun, gin ye houl yer wheest, an prick up yer lugs, ye can on page 14
Houl yer horses, an houl yer wheest, on page 15
They wudnae wheest ava on page 23
a ideas; yin tae mak a valley wheest on page 49

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Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
whan I was a wean houl their wheest noo, for they're happed in ki
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General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
sumbodie toul ye tae houl yer wheest on page 44

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@the_gellick tweeted
Wheest! Or gie us your crack in daic (2015) twitter link
Dinnae houl yer wheest; houl yer ain! #UlsterScots (2017) twitter link