A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whist Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 0.5 3 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences51 2 0 0 0 2
Number of authors4 1 1 2

Occurrences of whist 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 a fuckin Tory" ah tell him, whist greetin hard intae the tablec on page 171

1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
the kirk - played a hannie o whist on page 15

2 matches

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
’d think she could hauld her whist a wheen o days, but naw, she (2020) search twitter

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@d_anderson878 Howl yur whist, whit yea mean 'had'? ?????? (2021) search twitter