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Use in varieties of Scots

whoever Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 6.4 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1513 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of whoever in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
if ah like the soond ae bein whoever-it-is, ah'll come up: itherwi on page 20
in it aboot fower fit high. "Whoever it is lives there," though Al on page 54

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ssed right then an there, tae whoever's list'nin. on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
it. A place where yae kin be whoever yae want tae be. And here's m on page 20
urn tae face the direction ae whoever said it. Ah instantly find ma on page 51

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
'd turn roon an say tae them, Whoever smelt it dealt it. on page 90
hem dacin wis smokin, snoggin whoever they wur gaun wi, an dancin o on page 169

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e tae ingratiate themsels tae whoever it is, owns the arse their to
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
an’ ah'll tell ye fur whye Whoever much they waant tae pyee ‘C
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
but wherever she’d went and whoever she’d went wi’, she didna
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
snae waitin eagerly tae greet whoever’s oan the other side. Ah pu
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
e @AppleMak19 @NicolaSturgeon Whoever that @AppleMak19 is has me bl(2020) search twitter

@MartinBroon tweeted
the barrel...Best of luck wae whoever yeez go fur...cept that waste(2019) search twitter

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
in id aboot four feet high. "Whoever lives air," thoucht Alice, "i on page 52

1 matches

Southern

@officialAliRed tweeted
Muckle thanks to whoever posted this through my letter(2019) search twitter