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The word 'whaivver'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whaivverOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
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)
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 whaivver in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
lowa dat nycht, an at da boy, whaivver he wis, wis ower weel. Bit we
1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
wdriver an aboot the infamy o whaivver haed drave the screws in wi a on page 98

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ce o nae mair nor twa things. Whaivver decided that wis choice eneug on page 30

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
the past that the writer, or whaivver is peyin the writer, wants ye on page 10
rney. The challenge wis this. Whaivver got the job, gin he cuid live on page 86

2 matches

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