A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'whalers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whalersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.582
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 74.3 7 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 whalers in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
da ice-boond Greenland whalers hame. on page 63

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
iness. An whit a send aff the whalers got. Maistly they wuid aw set on page 32
egree o competition amang the whalers, an their freens an faimlies, on page 33
ne by ane aw the ither Dundee whalers had come back tae port, an ma on page 34
- there wis ae fear that the whalers aye had. That wis the fear o on page 36
They were hard lads, the whalers, an Peter's joke wis the stai on page 45

7 matches

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