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The word 'whusky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whuskyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.933
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whusky in Corpus

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South East (Borders)

Purdie, David C. Lallans 90 - Le Vin de Mon Pays, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Southern, poetry
Sae gie me whusky, crack, an sang. on page 7

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
the neist drap guid strang whusky
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
terScots (an a wee hauf-yin o whusky, if he taks a drop himsel). (2015) twitter link