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The word 'umwhile'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
umwhileOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8164
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 162.2 13 1
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 umwhile in Corpus

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Glasgow

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ht for neeborly and guidwilly umwhile Labour votin AY voters) bis t
1 matches

General Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 56 - Greenfield the Name O The Pit, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, poetry
umwhile kirk or colliery biggins. on page 107

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
– Edvard Myliband o Labour, umwhile coalition pairtner Nikolai Kl
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
em is Matt. Rodger, son o the umwhile Mattha an Lizzie Rodger o Dea
ety Transactions 1955, bi the umwhile R.E.Scott, Enteetled, “Bort
orth’ick Waitter”, bi the umwhile R.E.Scott, Hawick Archaelogic
umwhile Adam Elliot, (Joiner) Deanbur
ma muther an hir brother, ma umwhile uncle Adam Elliot, baith
13 matches

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