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The word 'whedder'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whedderOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.8497
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 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 12.2 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 186 30 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 whedder in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
aet day an laek ta neib ower) whedder da plaisir o makkin a daisy c on page 7
an whit does it maitter ta me whedder du's a peerie lass or a snake on page 54
rie-wyes, for shö wisna sure whedder hit wis guid menners for her on page 59
ywye at a body eouldna a said whedder da wheefs o dem wis hurtin it on page 60
erie-wyes, for shd never kent whedder he wid laek da name: hoosumev on page 64
Also on pages 80, 81, 86
8 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
whedder ony een sud see da bonnie sto on page 19

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
R LAEK MAGIC. Dodie didna ken whedder Granny wis automatic or no, b
1 matches

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
Whedder there’s a Billy boy or a Be
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
dna jalouse frae hiz neist ak whedder the connectioun
John speired wi a caum souch whedder thair destinautioun wes a sta
the cuidna yit compreise whedder thai wuid manish ti betrump t
coy. Whedder he douchtna skair hiz secrie
e. Mirren wes kwerious ti sei whedder the cailleach hed a blak baud
5 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
t, thon’s the chairm o’t. Whedder ye gang awaw, ir whedder ye d
ye gang awaw, ir whedder ye dinna; whedder ye wun til
ye dinna; whedder ye wun til yer destinautioun
wun til yer destinautioun ir whedder ye reik sumwhaurs els, ir whe
ye reik sumwhaurs els, ir whedder ye nivver git oniewhaurs avaw
6 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
queeriorum. Fowk wisna shair whedder she wis a servant. But, o coo
air ain fowk here. He wonnert whedder Beatrice wis richt an some at
straught fellae ahint? Weill, whedder or no, she didna loss nae tim
ir past months an conseederin whedder Ah cud trust ye. Ah’m bring
Wu-Yun hesitatit whedder tae dae Bill’s biddin, bit
24 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
as I wad likit thaim tae be. Whedder this wis frae fear or anticip on page 55

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
The question noo is whedder they’ll cairry on for the c
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando “Blood Upon the Grass” – merk twa?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
itba fan) mair interestin nor whedder it’s Gordon or McGregor tha
1 matches

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