A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

wh Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 6 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1412 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of wh in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s ah wander aboot ootside the WH Smith in the hospital ah kin on page 177

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
habit o uisin 'f' insteid o 'wh') tho yon auld chestnut aboot on page 75

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McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
e British History magazine in WH Smith's, Scotland's history i on page 23

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Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
'Wh...it?' on page 17

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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
me is the ane written wi the "wh" digraph. Altho this is soond
sic writers juist writes it "wh". This maks sense for that no
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“No tae ye git wh’ ye’re wintin,” he repl
Wh’else ye dae for Raggle?”
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
s) speikers tend tae aspirate wh-wirds, sic that there is a di
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
o wirds that noo stert wi ‘wh-’: as in, fur exemple, quha
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@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
do this and walk about doing wh(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the snp as there is no reason wh (2021) twitter link

Doric

Murdoch, Steve Schrödinger’s Leid?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Doric - St Andrews, blog
an you’d hae pitten a ‘wh’ or a ‘quh’, then STOP
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Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
) In Doric (N-E) dialect, the wh in most words becomes an f. F(2020) search twitter