A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'wh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21411
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 9.8 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 wh in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s ah wander aboot ootside the WH Smith in the hospital ah kin on page 177

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
me is the ane written wi the "wh" digraph. Altho this is soond
sic writers juist writes it "wh". This maks sense for that no
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the snp as there is no reason wh (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
habit o uisin 'f' insteid o 'wh') tho yon auld chestnut aboot on page 75

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“No tae ye git wh’ ye’re wintin,” he repl
“Wh’else ye dae for Raggle?”
2 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
'Wh...it?' on page 17

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
s) speikers tend tae aspirate wh-wirds, sic that there is a di
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
o wirds that noo stert wi ‘wh-’: as in, fur exemple, quha
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
do this and walk about doing wh(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
e British History magazine in WH Smith's, Scotland's history i on page 23

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@StuartPoet tweeted
) In Doric (N-E) dialect, the wh in most words becomes an f. F(2020)

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