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The word 'whales'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whalesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81610
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 53.1 5 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 whales in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
domestic stuff as I missed da whales. Och weel, it's fine tae ken (2016)
I hear there's killer whales headin nort fae #SumburghHead(2016)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
lan o the blae-backit singin whales.' – bit the step-mither's s
rae the laboratories inno the whales' skeletons aneth the sea tae
2 matches

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
sons, o dochters, o birds, o whales, o aa leevin things, o aa the
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
urned a special ile fae sperm whales that burned wi a white licht
1 matches

General Northern

Petrie, Kimberley Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Letter Tae Ma Younger Sel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ye catch glimpses o whales, on page 25

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
rcle ivvery year tae hunt the whales. Ships fae Dundee like the Ba on page 36
e huntit fer their blubber if whales cuidnae be fund, but the meat on page 37
ships, the men went eftir the whales in these wee boats. There cui on page 40

5 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
tae ferm an fish an track the whales. Bit nae Ketil. 'Ahm nae ettl on page 14

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
draigons, bogles, queens and whales on page 158

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
tae jail, with a whale - and whales can eat you’. The explanator(2020)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@MiriamBrett Mon the whales(2020)

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