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The word 'wheisht'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wheishtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wheisht in Corpus

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General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
wheisht, an tain the first shour efte
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
e hirst. “Ye maun haud yeir wheisht gin shae gaes intil a
id ti warnish hir ti haud hir wheisht.
2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
elp hiz haun on the buird fur wheisht aw roun; he wuid flie up rid on page 5
; bot the skipper hauddit hiz wheisht thon evenin, an fur mony even on page 9

2 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
In time wi the risp o their wheisht. on page 98

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
is ither buik, fae Scotland's wheisht history afore the Romans, thr on page 130

1 matches

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