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The word 'wheelin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wheelinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus41313
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 wheelin in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Soondscapes, (Shetland For Wirds 2015) Shetland, poetry
da laand, kert-wheelin alleluias.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he gaed; sea-maws scrauchin, wheelin an divin fir wirms es he ploo on page 89

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
ythin. The flock ae burds wur wheelin aboot. Nane ae thum landin. S on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s, usually ah'm oot and aboot wheelin and dealin. Or doon the Carou on page 142

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
wifies gaein the messages or wheelin auld prams ladit wi washin ti on page 99

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
lls flat on his arse, his hat wheelin back doon the hill. A gee him on page 35

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
oon an catchin it in a fluid, wheelin motion. ‘Did ye fuckin see
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
t doesnae matter whether it's wheelin in their bins or gien Maw's k on page 5

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
wheelin her micht. on page 30

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Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Buffalo Bill, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
cam wheelin oot o the sun an gave chase on page 62

1 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
y basis or a gimmick fine for wheelin oot an “celebratin” on sp
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
the dance yon Saturday nicht, wheelin and flingin hersel aboot the on page 76

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Lallans 73 - Mither, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
wheelin the 'Iron horse' on page 58

1 matches

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