A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whirr Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences54 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of whirr in Corpus

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Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Whirr o wind an whirl o wheel on page 56

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
gey slowly, wi an unco whirr comin fae the inside o it. on page 105

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
Anon there cam’ a whirly-whirr,
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Tasteless, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Saltcoats, prose
A cannae pinpint ri exact day whirr it wis xmas eve ur ri day afo
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Soondscapes, (Shetland For Wirds 2015) Shetland, poetry
o birds, a oorie whirr, a vimmerin
1 matches

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