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The word 'weefla'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
weeflaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.4504
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
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) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 229.8 7 1
GUL - General Ulster 562.2 40 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of weefla in Corpus

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Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
tae the voice o the shepherd weefla - an the sneezes o the weeyi on page 125

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Warwick, Matthew Fergie an Freens oan tha fairm, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2011) Ulster - Rural Mid-Antrim, weans
they hae a pair o weans: yin weefla caa'ed Jock, an a wee lassie on page 3

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
g, his guidwife Grace an thur weefla, Dan, flittit til tha oul cot
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
O a weefla's spring. on page 6
Tha weefla rinnin wile on page 14
O a weefla no strang eneuch tae lift on page 16
Tha weefla apen't his tremmlin mooth, on page 19

7 matches

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
The wee oul wumman wantet a weefla. The wee oul man wantet a wee
. The wee oul man wantet a weefla. The wee oul wumman sed, “A
“A'll mak iz a gingerbried weefla.’ - Sae shae made a ginger
Sae shae made a gingerbried weefla.
The gingerbried weefla run awa. Hae run awa
39 matches

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