A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

whistled Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2 0 39.7 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences94 0 4 0 0 1
Number of authors8 4 3 1

Occurrences of whistled in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
noo, sometimes ye think ye've whistled it up by spikin' aboot it. Ah on page 22

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
stenin she's ignorn us. Sumdy whistled. Ah said tae Harpreet, Don't on page 113

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
The kettle whistled. "Ye micht mak the tea. Whaur on page 93

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
the toon danced and sang and whistled through their fingirs. on page 48

1 matches

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Wednesday I whistled up mild winds, a gentile gust on page 28

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
pulled the trigger, then hid whistled and aff hid flew. on page 16

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wednesday I whistled up mild winds, a gentle gust on page 154

1 matches

Leonard, Ingrid Northwords Now 43 - Ingrid Leonard, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Orkney, poetry
ie evening, an air so blue it whistled on page 18

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
The win' that whistled in the wa', whar' cam' it fra (2019) twitter link