Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whiley	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	3.7	1.5	13.4	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	12	3	9	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	6	2	4

Occurrences of whiley in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
sae quick, in the last wee whiley on page 30
It taks a guid whiley tae put ten an ten thegether on page 31

2 matches

Wilde, Jacqueline Jay Valentine Tango, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
A wee whiley back, eh?
1 matches

Doric

Clark, F. E. Eemis Stane 1 - Vratched, (Eemis Stane 2022) Doric, prose
st sit wi ma an hud ma hand a whiley. Ahm sair made an the deil o on page 23

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
eech ), an they went on for a whiley in silence. on page 60
ed been lookan at Alice for a whiley wi beeg curiosity, an iss wis on page 65
she let e Moosie go on for a whiley withoot interruptan id. on page 71
he thoucht id oer for a peedy whiley afore she made her next remar on page 94
t them, an considered a peedy whiley afore she gave her answer. "T on page 99
Also on pages 114
6 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
mebbe hae geen that tae ye a whiley ago, said ma granny, but I li
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
d a wee thochtie a' day bin a whiley since @shmuFM 's @johnnydee72(2016) search twitter