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The word 'whaup'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whaupOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11713
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whaup in Corpus

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Shetland

Mainland, Jim Performance (After Les Murray), (Shetland For Wirds 2001) Shetland, poetry
an a whaup-pleepse on a bulderit bit;
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ou'd hear wind, lintie/twite, whaup/curlew, shalders/oystercatche(2020)
Peerie whaup aka whimbrel telling me it re(2020)

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
A moot, "naw, Dar Oma yon's a whaup Ye hear" on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an oatmeal alang wi ony fresh whaup, wild deuk or seagull eggs th on page 56

1 matches

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
frae his darg whan he heard a whaup comin tae on page 9

1 matches

Donaldson, Gordon Lallans 90 - Echty-Echt, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
ae gaen tae. But here was the whaup in the raip: naebody wantit t on page 36

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
cam a faur-aff tirlin cry o a whaup. The whaups were back. Spring on page 17

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The whaup never jinkit sae muckle askew on page 82

1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
#scotnight whaup gowdspink speug lintie hoolet(2016)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A distant whaup, it's song so clear on page 47

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
The Smiddy At The Whaup on page 21

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
an the wheeple o the whaup at gloamin on page 167

2 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
bird-names. Have you heard a Whaup (Curlew), Gowk (Cuckoo) or La(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
As tha cry o ony whaup on page 16
An in tha whaup's dour cry on page 24

2 matches

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