A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word '-wye'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
-wyeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of -wye 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.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
e laek dis Sae waarm an sleepy-wye, on page 5
s sayin tae her, aafil serious-wye, "Noo Dinah, tell me da truth on page 10
lice telt hersel, kinda faerce-wye. "I advise dee ta stop yon di on page 14
ookit at her kinda inquisitive-wye, an seemed ta her ta be winki on page 22
," said da Dodo, aafil serious-wye. "Whit idder haes du i dee po on page 28
Also on pages 31, 33, 41, 44, 53, 54, 55, 56, 60, 62, 70, 71, 72, 74, 78, 79, 80, 97, 100, 120
25 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
evoted ta dem, but hit's a wan-wye traffic, June didna even come on page 44

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
haes a 3-wye contrast system wi dis / yun on page 63
English wye, at onli haes a 2-wye on page 64

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
That bonny new roomie maks a-wye look gloomy Fit aboot fa'in o on page 15

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
o flesh. She wis bye the hauf-wye merk noo; anely twa hunner fi
the deep. He'd anely gaen hauf-wye tae be a doctor – hid diver
2 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Her faither got aff the P-wye an in tae the signal box. Ye on page 18

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
, yae see, sae monie oot-o-the-wye things had heppent lately, th on page 12
expectin naethin but oot-o-the-wye things tae heppen, but it see on page 14
se? Iverythin's that oot-o-the-wye doon here, that A think it li on page 22
"Bae-the-wye, what baecome o the weeyin?" on page 64

4 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Whut-wye wud ye insense a bodie intil
1 matches

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