A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'whom'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whomOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.31712
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 whom in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
Whom his ain son o' life bereft-
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
A sumph is a cheil to whom Natur has denied ony consider
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
pun pure journalistic gold. O whom we'd truly say, on page 45

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
aw. Mebbe the judges, monie o whom jist accidentally were landow on page 83

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ntly tae the southern laddie, whom he seemed tae ken. They heade
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Educational (Mis)Communication, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
(Aye an’ those wi’ whom we’ve fought,)
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Laddie on whom talent fell,
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e Son, an the Holy Spirit, to whom shall be ascribed all majesti on page 36
rist, the King o Kings, afore whom aa men an kings o this earth on page 46

2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
are of any Scots speakers for whom English is not the first lang on page 121

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
(?) separation from his lady, whom he hopes will be faithful and
1 matches

@Sinethugcat tweeted
dae wi 'believing the women' whom she claimed not to know. (2021) twitter link
3 'activists' in tow, none of whom appear in fotos...changed day (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
's then usually Laphroaig aff whom he got a dozen honorary bottl(2020)
mbers and activists and those whom you've supported in the face (2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Aboot the gangs wae whom hae worked, thirs tales tae t on page 43

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
strikingly beautiful women of whom it could be said "Ye wudnae m on page 33

1 matches

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