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Use in varieties of Scots

westray Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 0 0 129.2 0 0 0
Number of occurrences130 0 13 0 0 0
Number of authors8 8

Occurrences of westray in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
-me-pull-you tidal dance, The Westray Wan Step. on page 28

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
A Holiday in Westray on page 1
Ah'll hae tae geung back tae Westray next year - on page 2
There's Fitty Hill on Westray and the high Ward Hill o Hoy on page 48

4 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
livery o fatty cutties in fae Westray, and yu canna baet a freshly on page 86
Lunch wis Westray watar biscuits on page 88

2 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
-me-pull-you tidal dance, The Westray Wan Step. on page 154

1 matches

Brown, Moyra Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The Westray Room on page 29

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
p like sweet spring watter in Westray and Papay and also, less freq
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
rkney a cockney, queeklee got Westray, got Edinburgh whan sheu gaed
1 matches

@johnkmitchinson tweeted
ae the ‘Queen o the Isles’ (Westray) the day. https://t.co/1yFjia (2021) twitter link

@peediepuss tweeted
dialect still extant here on Westray at least. Perhaps just hangin(2020) search twitter

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