Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'whist'

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Use in varieties of Scots

whist	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.6	5	4
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster	14.1	1	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whist in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
the kirk - played a hannie o whist on page 15

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s a fuckin Tory" ah tell him, whist greetin hard intae the tablec on page 171

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
d think she could hauld her whist a wheen o days, but naw, she (2020)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@d_anderson878 Howl yur whist, whit yea mean 'had'? ?????? (2021)