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The word 'wair'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wairOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.482
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 1
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 wair in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
steyed, infrosin, till wair.
1 matches

West Central

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
iy thi way, she said, Thi bit wair it says they git cot coz they on page 41

2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
in sair aw the mornin, wi the wair-tid redd o hiz wie hame. Firs
Wair wes muivin in the air abuin a
lse ‘Ti Hekkilburnie wi the wair-tid redd’ an joukit outby t
e jo o leivin an the delyte o wair outen its reddin, he tuik the
Whedder in wintir ir simmer, wair ir baken, it aye hes its funn
5 matches

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