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The word 'weegie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
weegieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
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 weegie in Corpus

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
eart. Goth witch defo dis the weegie board an a hate weegies.(2020)
oir Shut the windae, stinks o weegie. #standfree(2020)

(South) East Central

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
orth-East Doric or in demotic Weegie or in Limmy's vines or in Hen
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
teuchter in Lanarkshire an a weegie when he gauns back tae Dundee
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
199 Nae danger. I can sense a weegie a mile aff. I’d say Yir a bi(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Weegie accent an workin' class Ma mo on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
accept a bitter non native, a Weegie, wan that might...huv somethi on page 3

1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ly I'm speaking in defence of weegie patter
I'm shriekin' with intensive weegie chatter
2 matches

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