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The word 'weal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wealOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3105
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 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 weal in Corpus

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
320 Declaration as the Common Weal. Some o whit's comin in these on page 15
d o the communitie the Common Weal afore awthin else. Shairly th on page 33
d been thocht o as the Common Weal. Jist as there were mair Lowl on page 71
Scottish ideas as the Common Weal, the contrack atween Kings an on page 125

4 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Battered the common weal wi giltit canes, on page 45
or the Games here, the Common Weal on page 135

2 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
Common Weal statit that the Bill fails ta on page 33
Common Weal suggestit that the strategie on page 44

2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Much hyped by Common Weal an Bella Caledonia, an gainin
1 matches

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ibed in her bio on the Common Weal wabsite as haein an ‘academ
1 matches

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