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The word 'walth'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
walthOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.13724
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 26.6 6 3
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 42.7 4 3
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 7
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 54.5 3 1

Occurrences of walth in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
him, tho, an wisno borned tae walth or comed atwart the galaxy it on page 119

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
an are chokit wi tribbles an walth an pleesures o iss life an th on page 93
or e chiel att lays in muckle walth bit his little or naethin in on page 102
gin ye canna be trusted wi e walth o iss warl, fa's gyan tae tru on page 108

4 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
eve im, tho the laist trace o walth haed been leeft far ahin. on page 30

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
the legends are a joke, Their walth's in the sea. on page 14

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
le addeition til the cultural walth o oor kintra. on page 123

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 116, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ae ilk ane accordin tae thair walth, an takin ane whan it's no of
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
e this greed fir gowd. As yer walth growes on page 107

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
eces. He is dumfounert bi the walth he sees, an the sneist he enc on page 142

1 matches

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
fare spendin gaed richt up, a walth tax wis brocht in. For the fi
ate awnership an concentratit walth, insteid focusin on post-merc
l spiralin inequality, acause walth produces sae muckle income th
gulate it an tae redistribute walth frae rich tae puir.
4 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ridge type, that divvy up the walth o the nation fae generation t on page 114

1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
Gin a man gied the walth o his hoose fur love on page 17

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
i aa their popish fripperies, walth, pouer, an airs an graces - on page 72

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
auch wi us: "Aye, here's some walth for yer merchant cless, an we on page 23

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
r wes gey an mirrie aboot the walth, binna that he didna ken hou on page 42

2 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
r my business chiel they were walth. But thae starns are aw seele on page 87

1 matches

Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
s as an expression o cultural walth an include as weel the need f on page 3

1 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
The walth o the spoken Scots doun there on page 6

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
awa frae aa ma pouer an walth. on page 35

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
outer and noo they hae aa the walth o ‘Itchy-coo’. But it is
1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Englan, thrang o fowk, an the walth and stabeility o its economy,
• the tradeitional walth o the leid offers mony weys t
2 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
exical puirtith an rhetorical walth.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
near a metre hie) til social walth an airtisan skeel. on page 5

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Why love an walth, shud she hae mair? on page 29

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
s cannae be trustit wi warlie walth, wha wull trust yis wi tha tr on page 97
Walth ïn haiven on page 100

3 matches

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