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The word 'whelks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whelksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5164
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 70.6 13 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 whelks in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@helenmoncrieff Girny Whelks! yins very good. Hid's so rel(2020)

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
late friend called dem 'Girny whelks' because of da look o a gummy(2020)

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
SAMMY'S BAG OF WHELKS on page 1
'Da, ah've bought us some whelks,' ah say, walking intae the l on page 2
man, must've been they fuckin whelks, That's wit ah get fur tryin on page 3
food poisoning fae some dodgy whelks an if ah ever see the cunt th on page 4

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South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
o the Thames, sooking whelks, on page 12

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