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The word 'whaurs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whaursOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 whaurs in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Whaurs Hid Geen? on page 105

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
@wishfullythinks Whaurs du fae :) He did weel. Did yo(2014)

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
s teuchter jet lag chat like? Whaurs e rockin' tunes ken?(2016)
@johnnydee72 himmin, whaurs thon awfa guid radio show o' (2015)
@johnnydee72 whaurs ma name check ye bam? I'm yer(2016)
@Sandi_Thom Neigh bad Quine, whaurs yer riding helmet?(2018)
aw! Fit ti dee @STVAberdeen ? Whaurs ma wooly cape and thermal ban(2016)

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
, for his antecedents, Donald Whaurs Yer Troosers(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
No the whaurs or whys or eftirwards but wha on page 41

1 matches

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