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The word 'whalin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whalinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.4244
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 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 169.9 16 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) 88.3 1 1
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) 72.7 4 1

Occurrences of whalin in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
d whin he ower-wintered at da whalin, money me an him wis medd pla on page 46
year. Bertie cam hame fae da whalin, he wis wintered oot twaese f on page 72
booze. My Bertie gude tae da whalin, an wintered oot twaese, ta e on page 73

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
BACK IN THE WHALIN times there wis a lot o money on page 32
had decidit tae invest in the whalin. He had been gey successful a on page 33
e the dangers o the Greenland whalin. on page 34
maist important centre o the whalin trade in Europe. Afore the de on page 36
assignit tae ane o the actual whalin boats. These werenae onie big on page 40
Also on pages 41, 43, 44
16 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Thein shameful whalin alwyes gat, on page 17

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ak readie, he'll get yin guid whalin. But tha yin that dïd wrang on page 92
in hïm, an giein hïm a guid whalin. An the' püt a blinfoul on h on page 108
ae deith. Sae A'll gie hïm a whalin tae lairn hïm a lesson, an l on page 109

4 matches

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