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The word 'weemen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
weemenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus57.219035
ORK - Orkney 159 16 3
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 62.1 19 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 31.5 3 2
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 452.5 73 1
GLA - Glasgow 30.7 6 1
AYR - Ayrshire 53.4 5 2
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 196.7 3 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 204.9 4 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 229.8 7 1
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 363.4 20 1

Occurrences of weemen in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
o weemen in Orkney, on page 5

3 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
for some poor, hapless weemen in Orkney. on page 11

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
o weemen pit through on page 17

2 matches

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
d surface. Greetan noo by two weemen. on page 20

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
as these weemen suffered on page 25

2 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ials. Some o his notes o what weemen wir accused o aer produced ve on page 34

5 matches

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
The weemen in this hoose are no like tho on page 42

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
(Two weemen condemned as witches, impriso on page 76

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Weemen come, cotts white fornenst on page 63
He tizes weemen wi sateens conjured on page 69
s o wis - white witch-bricht weemen - on page 86
Some wi their weemen's names painted on page 88
Whitivver cam o da kirk weemen on page 115

5 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
is fine, kindly, obligin aald weemen, but no Dodie's Granny. Shöâ
1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
ns plaised, an wait. An aa da weemen, up an doon da voe, is waitin
nly een, for dey wir a lock o weemen on da beach, midders an siste
€˜Dis is nae place for flytin weemen da night. It's strong men an
3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Baith weemen teen a gweed lach, their shoo on page 14
He noddit it twa hauf-nyaakit weemen, aa greased up an streakit oo on page 43

2 matches

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
e an looket at her soorlike. "Weemen's fickle craiters. Sax month on page 94

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
can mak a killin...an aa you weemen are as feel ye're faain fir't on page 14

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
's blissin is on ye, abeen aa weemen, an his blissin is on e fruit on page 80
E twal were wi him an a fyow weemen fowk att hid been set lowss f on page 92
th come aboot. Bit waly for e weemen att are wi bairn at sic a tim on page 115
o fowk cam efter him wi mony weemen lamentin an greetin ower him. on page 119
y gaed. An aa his freens an e weemen att hid follaed him fae Galil on page 120
Also on pages 121
11 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
The neist time twaa weemen dunt on ma door fin ma wife i(2015)
year anniversary i' votes fur weemen bit is a secret Celebrity Big(2018)
Fitever neist! Weemen hiv an International day aa t(2018)
timate sacrifice o servicemin/weemen in wars, conflicts & training(2019)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
story o bein maistly ained bi weemen. In the 1700s, it was ained b on page 17

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
o haan; the pernickety wyes o weemen; an the waefu state o the war on page 88

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 83 - The Umman, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
that ee’ll ken muckle aboot weemen rakin aboot i the nicht!’
1 matches

General Northern

Benzie, Lesley Tales Fae The Doric Side - Pictur o Misery, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
an aul adult men an weemen. on page 68

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
anither Ward. Thare wir thray weemen in the neixt
ggit yin o thay nairra-nebbit weemen
weemen’s pee-bags, thit wis wearin
3 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
The auld weemen inside cried oot, “God tak
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
he skelets o men an aiblins o weemen an weans: on page 41
up the stour. But it wis the weemen had the maist speerit, wi the on page 74
ken; he blethers on aboot the weemen-freends he trystit wi up ther on page 77

3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
g, and ye little ken what the weemen folk have to dae. Ye think th
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
Iain McGregor's 'The Nakit Weemen' is a cantie comic tale o bai on page 5

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
The weemen tane her intae yin o the gues
dressed, Rongye cried on the weemen. She didna need ony halp wi h
d o aboot thirty fowk, men an weemen, gaithered roon thaim an swep
tae a lamp-lit chaumer whaur weemen wis sittin aroon a couple o s
he wis taller nor maist o the weemen an mony o the men. She wis a
73 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Aw ye weemen, boys, and men on page 5
Aye ye'll be free, the weemen and the men on page 17
Weemen and men brakkin soil in time on page 37
gang oot, girls turnin intae weemen wi nae tits at aw on page 43
Whit lies o luve ye'll lay on weemen the day on page 127
Also on pages 154
6 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
p an ee oot for aulder weedow weemen that steyed alane in their ho on page 23

4 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 76 - Oan the Daith o John Law, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
the strang, leal luv o lusum weemen:
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
o weirfare an sennin men, an weemen, tae fecht, baith at hame an on page 52

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 104 - Ordnar Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
he fame. Here sanctuary, thay weemen Wi thair bairns, Skule, messa on page 89

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ken, and I hae aboot a hunner weemen warkin for me ower at ma plac on page 30
Ye get the best results wi weemen that are wearin expensive glo on page 39

4 matches

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 73 - Stars, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Pairt o the company o three weemen at the table naur aboots on page 56

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
In aw, a man an fower weemen haed seen this object an cam
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
his maitert tae wirkin men an weemen wantin tae feed thair faimlie
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
in @bobbyrobson46 nut all the weemen run away frae him.div e like (2012)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
hes and Queens there were nae weemen at aa in Scottish history. Wh on page 59

2 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
The haill o the weemen
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
air comfortable dressed up in weemen's claes naw men's attire. An on page 44

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
'Men an weemen nooadays,' qu' he. on page 16
e weegle an work his wie roon weemen frae this tae Dinnygal. Ivery on page 48
An a the men an weemen's jaist ectthers: on page 51

3 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
in ye. Yell hae tae fecht tha weemen aff wi a stick." on page 19
haein quare crack eein up tha weemen. on page 24

4 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ffect o Sally's leuks. Men an weemen wud gleek at Sally fur juist on page 21
aid Lily. "Iools doon fur the weemen as o at four o'clock." on page 25
eliberatin warkers' rights an weemen scrubbin laundry fur a pittan on page 27
wur fis tae hir ma as the twa weemen stuid thegither, yin on the w on page 29
a validation o the ails that weemen possess. on page 51
Also on pages 57, 58
7 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
aa hae sub-curns aa airt oan weemen, men an' young fowk. Affen th on page 36

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
mine weemen an weans. on page 9
"Fair faa ye, blissit amang weemen, tha Loard ïs wi ye." on page 70
ïm. Forbye, thair wur sartin weemen that haed bin cured o wickit on page 82
yer money aa roon hïm on bad weemen an tha like, ye gae an kïll on page 97
an tha ither left behin; Twa weemen wull be grindin meal thegithe on page 99
Also on pages 104, 105, 109, 110, 111
20 matches

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